Quotes

Think Again, Page 72

…if we can’t learn to find occasional glee in discovering we were wrong, it will be awfully hard to get anything right.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Page 72

…when everyone is focused on results and using those to define success, it is difficult for ego to get out of hand.

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Page 72

…there’s a difference between being an achiever and a leader. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Good to Great, Page 72

The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse.

The Element, Page 72

…creative work is a delicate balance between generating ideas and sifting and refining them.

168 Hours, Page 72

An entrepreneurial mind-set can get you a long way toward creating the right job in a way that makes everyone happy.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Page 72

No matter how good an individual on the team might be feeling about his or her situation, if the team loses, everyone loses.

Good to Great, Page 72

…less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.

The E-Myth Revisited, Page 73

The Entrepreneurial Model looks at a business as if it were a product, sitting on a shelf and competing for the customer’s attention against a whole shelf of competing products (or businesses).

Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Page 073

…it’s human nature to want to put as positive a spin as possible on who we are, at least in terms of how we present ourselves to the outside world.