Quotes

Start With No, Page 12

This is precisely how any practitioner learns his or her craft: through practice, study, making good and bad decisions, correcting the bad ones, more practice, more study, more decisions, more corrections.

Out of Our Minds, Page 012

Fortunes rise or fall according to how well they adapt to changing circumstances.

The Art of the Start 2.0, Page 012

It’s better to have too few founders than too many. Breaking up with founders, like spouses, is hard to do.

Think Again, Page 12

If you can master the art of rethinking… you’ll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life.

The Heart of Change, Page 12

Successful see-feel-change tactics tend to be clever, not clumsy, and never cynically manipulative.

Getting to Yes, Page 12

Before trying to reach agreement, invent options for mutual gain.

Reset, Page 012

When we go and see the work, we stop debating ideas and start discovering them.

The Advantage, Page 12

Anyone who has ever worked in an unhealthy organization – and almost everyone has – knows the misery of dealing with politics, dysfunction, confusion, and bureaucracy.

Range, Page 012

Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.

Competing in the New World of Work, Page 012

Disasters don’t just destroy. They reveal. They uncover the weaknesses in human structures… that had long outlived their usefulness when disaster struck.