Quotes

A Sense of Urgency, Page 81

Do you want to risk short-term problems, or do you want to shield people from relevant external information… ultimately to undermine an organization’s future?

Emotional Agility, Page 81

Sometimes, in our struggle with difficult circumstances, we make things much worse for ourselves. We take raw pain and convert it into real suffering.

Focus, Page 81

Anything we can do to increase children’s capacity for cognitive control will help them throughout life.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 081

As soon as people have created a category called us… they invariably perceive everybody who isn’t in it as non-us.

The Badass Business Analyst, Page 081

The more you know yourself, the more you are capable of dealing with difficult situations.

The No Asshole Rule, Page 81

…the only thing worse than too much confrontation is no confrontation at all.

Off Balance, Page 81

The only way to thrive in an environment of change is to know which values are nonnegotiable for you.

Distracted, Page 081

Relying on multitasking as a way of life, we chop up our opportunities and abilities to make big-picture sense of the world and pursue our long-term goals.

Making the Case, Page 081

…for your case to be heard you first have to know who you are talking to and what kinds of issues resonate with them.

Give and Take, Page 82

Professional relationships disintegrate when entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and executives feel…