Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 315

…if no one seems to care except when something goes wrong, motivation can quickly turn into resentment.

Sooner Safer Happier, Page 316

Start where you are. Subscribe to learning from others, and sense the outside world to learn new potential patterns of success.

Sooner Safer Happier, Page 316

We live in a world of uncertainty… The pace of change is never going to be slower than it is today.

Inspired, Page 316

One of the prerequisites for consistent innovation is a team that has had a chance to learn the space, technologies, and customer pain. This doesn’t happen if the members of the team are constantly shifting.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 316

…maturity means an active, self-reflective struggle to accept the dissonance we feel about hopes we did not realize, opportunities we let slide by, mistakes we made, challenges we could not meet, all of which changed our lives in ways we could not anticipate.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 316

Without feedback, there can be only a limited sense of achievement and opportunity to improve performance.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 316

The happiest, most mature adults were those who could embrace the losses in their lives and transform them into sources of deep gratitude…

The Progress Paradox, Page 317

Happiness must come from within, and money cannot buy it. Whether or not we attain happiness will probably always be unrelated to whether life is getting better.

Management, Page 317

…communications has proven as elusive as the unicorn. The noise level has gone up so fast that on one can really listen anymore to all that babble about communications. But there is clearly less and less communicating.

High Performance Habits, Page 317

There are always warning signs along the road to disaster. We just have to pay attention.