Quotes

Tribes, Page 127

What most people want in a leader is something that’s very difficult to find: we want someone who listens.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 127

The bigger our companies get, the more physical distance is created between us and the people who work for us or buy our products.

The Element, Page 127

…people often derive a large sense of who they are through affiliation with specific groups and tend to associate themselves closely with groups likely to boost their self-esteem.

Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age, Page 127

At its best, modelling really can explain what is doing well in the market place and what is not. It makes the data work for you.

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Page 127

Some of the best feedback comes from what you observe. If you accept it and act on it, it’s no less valid than people telling you the same thing at point-blank range.

Getting Things Done, Page 127

…every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.

Start With No, Page 127

Avoid both the strongly negative and the strongly positive by staying in the calm neutral range, which is where we find the deals that stick.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 127

Fake memories all ow people to forgive themselves and justify their mistakes, but sometimes at a high price: an inability to take responsibility for their lives.

Drive, Page 127

Why reach for something you can never fully attain? The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization. In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 127

When we divorce ourselves from humanity through numerical abstraction, we are… capable of inhuman behavior.