Quotes

Ditch the Pitch, Page 050

A good persuader learns to be comfortable in her own skin, putting self-doubt and self-criticism aside.

The Heart of Change, Page 50

Trust is often missing in senior management teams, although top managers are loath to admit this in public.

Drive, Page 50

For complex or conceptual tasks, offering a reward can blinker the wide-ranging thinking necessary to come up with an innovative solution.

CrazyBusy, Page 050

…the goal of all the prioritizing and planning is to program you and your brain so that habit, routine, and other automatic functions can take over a big chunk of the work, freeing up your frontal lobs to the creative, sophisticated work…

Never Eat Alone, Page 50

Audacity in networking has the same pitfalls and fears associated with dating…

On Becoming a Leader, Page 050

If you think of what you want and examine the possibilities, you can usually figure out a way to accomplish it. – Shirley Hufstedler

Measure What Matters, Page 50

To make reliable progress… a manager must be able to measure… performance and results against the goal. – Peter Drucker

High Performance Habits, Page 050

You should never wait to pursue a dream or add value out of fear that you lack the ‘right stuff.’

The Peter Principle, Page 50

Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.

Drive, Page 50

…when an extrinsic goal is paramount… its presence can restrict our view of the broader dimensions of our behavior.