Quotes

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything, Page 130

If conflict can be triggered during communications with others, then change and mutual understanding can occur in the same place.

On Becoming a Leader, Page 130

Mistakes – missteps – are necessary for actualizing your vision, and necessary steps toward success.

Primal Leadership, Page 130

Many things conspire to keep people from seeing their real selves.

Working Identity, Page 130

…people… are only capable of being fully self-reliant when they feel supported by and attached to trusted others.

Drive, Page 130

Left to their own devices… children seek out flow with the inevitability of a natural law. So should we all.

Inspired, Page 130

Some product visions are wildly optimistic and unrealistic about how fast things change, and others are far too conservative. This is usually the most difficult aspect of a good product vision.

The Peter Principle, Page 130

…create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence [to avoid promotion].

Overwhelmed, Page 130

Change is hard. Our very human nature pulls us back to the status quo, not because it’s better, but because it’s familiar.

Distracted, Page 130

…the measurement and management of risk is more central to our culture than ever before, as the unavoidable cost of navigating a world that we feel that we can actively shape…

The Progress Principle, Page 130

Great meaning can grow from the simple pleasure of enjoying colleagues.