Quotes

A World Without Email, Page 130

Don’t let things fall through the cracks, and if you commit to doing something by a certain time, hit the deadline, or explain why you need to shift it.

Stumbling on Happiness, Page 130

Another way to beat habituation is to increase the amount of time that separates repetitions of the experience.

Never Split the Difference, Page 130

The tendency to be anchored by extreme numbers is a psychological quirk known as the ‘anchor and adjustment’ effect.

The Effective Manager, Page 130

If you can’t let it go in terms of how you feel, we recommend that you do let it go by not giving the negative feedback.

Give and Take, Page 130

Powerless communicators tend to speak less assertively, expressing plenty of doubt and relying heavily on advice from others.

The Advantage, Page 130

…the purpose of having a thematic goal is not to restrict the organization’s flexibility but rather to rally its leaders around what they decide they want to achieve.

Sooner Safer Happier, Page 130

A commonly observed antipattern is people in senior roles not exhibiting the behaviors that they are asking or expecting from people within their remit.

Rapt, Page 130

In an age of constant assaults on your attention, sanity requires that you tune out many of them, beginning with those from your own communications devices.

CrazyBusy, Page 130

If we are too busy, too overwhelmed, too goal directed and data driven, we will not notice the new ideas that roll into consciousness, and they will disappear.

So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Page 130

When no one cares what you do with your working life, you probably don’t have enough career capital to do anything interesting.