Quotes

High Performance Habits, Page 319

…don’t overcommit yourself just because you’re good at what you do. It’s a short hop from badass to burnout.

The Messy Middle, Page 319

Everything you do should be an active commitment or nothing at all.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 320

People enjoy being praised… but it is a myth that they have no interest in learning what they don’t do well and what they must do to improve.

Inspired, Page 320

…[get] serious about test automation and release automation so the team can move quickly and release with confidence.

Influence, Page 320

…something special happens when people put their commitments on paper: they live up to what they write down.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 321

Dissonance may be hardwired, but how we think about mistakes is not.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 321

Employees naturally want to know how they can do their jobs better because improvement will give them a greater sense of achievement and pride.

Pour Your Heart Into It, Page 321

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing and solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

Lean Thinking, Page 321

…the value stream manager develops the vision for the product, determines the Current State of the value stream, and then envisions the Future State.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 321

When you take the long view of many similar decisions, you can see that paying a premium to avoid a small risk of a large loss is costly.