Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 39

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

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…

Inspired, Page 39

…to innovate you need expertise, and the durable nature of product teams lets people go deep enough to gain that expertise.

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.

Empowered, Page 039

…technology allows you to reconsider what’s possible and reimagine every aspect of your existing business.

Drive, Page 39

People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person’s motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and hidden cost of undermining that person’s intrinsic motivation toward the activity.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 39

…most people are reasonable in what they expect in terms of treatment and are eager to perform in a way that makes them feel good about their performance.

How the Mighty Fall, Page 039

…the best corporate leaders… remain students of their work, relentlessly asking questions – why, why, why? And have an incurable compulsion to vacuum the brains of people they meet.

Hidden Potential, Page 039

When we’re encouraged to make mistakes, we end up making fewer of them. Early mistakes help us remember the correct answer – and motivate us to keep learning.