Quotes

The Art of the Start 2.0, Page 135

…in almost all cases, you will have a lot of skin in the game in the form of months of sweat equity.

Rapt, Page 135

…whenever you engage in a creative activity, you boost your level of positive emotion, which in turn literally widens your attentional range, giving you more material to work with.

On Becoming a Leader, Page 135

Leaders are, by definition, innovators. They do things other people have not done or dare not do. They do things in advance of other people. They make new things. They make old things new.

Why Managers Matter, Page 135

…management (and hence executive authority) is essential in two conditions that are the hallmarks of our modern economy: an emphasis on knowledge as the key competitive resource, and competition based on innovation.

Tribes, Page 135

To have all these advantages… and then settle for mediocrity and then defend the status quo and then worry about corporate politics – what a waste.

Influencer, Page 135

Initially, failure signals the need for greater effort or persistence. Sometimes failure signals the need to change strategies or tactics. But failure should rarely signal that we’ll never be able to succeed.

The Inspirational Leader, Page 135

Passion is contagious, and the more negative energy that drips into the organization’s culture, the more dysfunctional the organization will become.

Tribes, Page 135

…we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 135

During a strategic inflection point, management continually has to refine its conception of the strategic map of the industry… But mental maps are awfully forgiving of ambiguity. You must force yourself to commit your thoughts to paper.

The Inspirational Leader, Page 135

…it’s never the people; its’ the environment.