Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 277

A powerful company culture built on a belief in in the importance and value of what it does and shared norms as to what is acceptable behavior is in itself a control mechanism that lessens the need for external controls…

Getting Things Done, Page 277

…your mind is designed to have ideas, based upon pattern detection, but it isn’t design to remember much of anything!

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 277

…with fewer controls comes great employee commitment and enthusiasm, which, in turn and in the manner of a virtuous cycle, requires fewer controls to operate effectively.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 277

There is no such thing as an enthusiastic workforce in an excessively layered organization.

Range, Page 278

Both training and professional incentives are aligning to accelerate specialization, creating intellectual archipelagos.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 278

This is the burden of having too much. It’s easy to spend or dispose of what we don’t need where there is plenty more available.

Why We Buy, Page 278

Successful retail experiences are run by placemakers, not landlords.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 278

If we simply measure the amount of food or energy Americans throw out, how much money we spend wantonly, that should give us an indication of how little we actually need.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 278

It is not when things come easily that we appreciate them, but when we have to work hard for them or when they are hard to get that those things have greater value to us.

Never Eat Alone, Page 278

Mentoring is a very deliberate activity that requires people to check their ego at the door, hold back from resenting other people’s success, and consciously strives to build beneficial relationships…