Quotes

Overwhelmed, Page 67

…it’s much more difficult for women to feel that they can get immersed in something and forget themselves, forget time, forget everything around them. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Quiet Leadership, Page 67

Remember that any time you want someone’s brain to do something new it is likely to bring up fear and concern… So it’s important to make people feel safe.

The 5 Levels of Leadership, Page 067

If you want to become a better leader, let go of control and start fostering cooperation.

Drive, Page 67

…while controlling extrinsic motivators can clobber creativity, ‘informational or enabling motivators can be conducive’ to it.

Start With No, Page 67

Nothing – absolutely nothing – is more important to a successful negotiation than for you to make as clear as possible from the very beginning that ‘no’ is a perfectly acceptable response at this negotiating table.

Rapt, Page 067

…like physical fitness, the mental sort that sustains the focused life can be cultivated.

Thanks for the Feedback, Page 67

Difference spotting – understanding as specifically as you can exactly why you and they see things differently – is a crucial lens through when to take in feedback.

Reality is Broken, Page 67

By design, every computer and video game puzzle is meant to be solvable, every mission accomplishable, and every level passable by a gamer with enough time and motivation.

Lost and Founder, Page 067

Great ideas and products are often born from mediocre ones.

Winners Never Cheat, Page 68

A crisis allows us the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn’t think we possessed.