Quotes

Leading from the Front, Page 119

Creative solutions often arise out of your ability to analyze crisis situations with an open mind.

Courage is Calling, Page 119

Some of us are afraid to be different. Most everyone is afraid to be difficult. But there is freedom in those traits.

Team of Teams, Page 120

…this overlap and redundancy – these inefficiencies – are precisely what imbues teams with high-level adaptability and efficacy. Great teams are less like ‘awesome machines’ than awesome organisms.

Emotional Agility, Page 120

If you know your own personal values and generally live by them, you are also likely to be comfortable with who you are.

Distracted, Page 120

Detachment is the cost of our wondrous, liberating mobility, the price we pay for living untethered.

HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, Page 120

Sometimes showing is more powerful than telling.

Zero to One, Page 120

If you can’t count durable relationships among the fruits of your time at work, you haven’t invested your time well – even in purely financial terms.

Courage is Calling, Page 120

They’re going to call you crazy – because courage is crazy. We have to be willing to look that way, to be true to who we are anyway. We can’t just not be afraid to be ourselves. We have to insist on it.

Brain Rules, Page 120

The brain is a sequential processor, unable to pay attention to two things at the same time.

Lost and Founder, Page 120

…don’t go in blinded by the money. Most of the time, startups are a comparatively poorly rewarded labor of passion.