Quotes

Drive, Page 81

…we can listen to the research, drag our business and personal practices into the twenty-first century, and craft a new operating system to help ourselves, our companies, and our world work a little better.

Distracted, Page 081

In the name of efficiency, we are diluting some of the essential qualities that make us human.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Page 081

…your strengths are more than merely what you’re good at.

A Whole New Mind, Page 081

Good design can change the world. (And so, alas, can bad design.)

Managing Up, Page 081

Learning to deal with a difficult boss means being able to adapt a strategic perspective.

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, Page 081

The bottom line: Ideas mean nothing without practical action…

Start With No, Page 81

Don’t ever forget this. As a negotiator, you don’t go anywhere without your adversary, by definition.

Willpower, Page 81

…the Zeigarnik effect: Uncompleted tasks and unmet goals tend to pop into one’s mind. Once the task is completed and the goal reached, however, this stream of reminders comes to a stop.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Page 081

You may feel a twinge of fear, but, unprompted, you put yourself in situations where you will have to perform [your instinctual strengths].

The Progress Principle, Page 081

The key is to design each job so that, in the act of carrying out the work, people gain knowledge about the results of their effort.