Quotes

Start With No, Page 39

The trained negotiator is more than happy to let the adversary show off in almost any way he wants to, because the adversary’s greatest strength will eventually become his greatest weakness.

Focus, Page 39

…the easy assumption that attention need be in the service of solving problems or achieving goals downplays the fruitfulness of the mind’s tendency to drift…

Zero to One, Page 39

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

The Practical Agilist Guidebook, Page 039

Collaboration isn’t just something a team should do during their agile events. It’s a default way of working.

Seductive Interaction Design, Page 039

By understanding the associations suggested by different aesthetic cues, we can shape how people respond to our designs.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 39

Perversely, many managers appear to… do their best to demotivate employees!

Drive, Page 39

’When institutions… focus on the short-term and opt for controlling people’s behavior,’ they do considerable long-term damage.

Quiet Leadership, Page 39

…being self-directed is the only way we learn, think, invent, create, solve problems, visualize, rethink, re-engineer – you name it, it all happens within a process of making our own connections.

To Sell is Human, Page 039

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources – not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

Accelerate, Page 39

The inevitable failures of single operating systems hurt us now… they are going to kill us in the future. The twenty-first century will force us all to evolve…