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Leading the Unleadable, Page 11

There will be stress on any team striving for excellence, and that often leads to conflict. The key is that conflict must be constructive…


The Go-Giver, Page 011

Typically, the more successful [people] are, the more willing they are to share their secrets with others.


The Effective Manager, Page 11

If you’re smart and work hard, you can do okay, but you’re missing the biggest leverage of all: a trusting relationship with those whom you manage.


Average is Over, Page 11

The future of technology is likely to illuminate the unsettling implications of how predictable we are…


Think Like a Champion, Page 011

More than ever, working together is as integral to survival as well as success.


Switch, Page 11

Much of our daily behavior… is more automatic than supervised, and that’s a good thing because the supervised behavior is the hard stuff. It’s draining.


The Go-Giver, Page 011

…to get really, really big, to reach the kind of stratospheric success we’re talking about, people need to have something on the inside, something that’s genuine.


Getting to Yes, Page 11

…when dealing with someone from another country, particularly someone with a markedly different cultural background… you [are] likely to see the necessity of establishing some accepted process for the substantive negotiations.


Switch, Page 11

The bigger the change you’re suggesting, the more it will sap people’s self-control.


Decisive, Page 11

…because pros and cons are generated in our heads, it is very, very easy for us to bias the factors. We think we are conducting a sober comparison, but, in reality, our brains are following orders from our guts.