Quotes

Quit, Page 143

Not selling something you own is a form of persistence.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 143

…the transformation implicit in surviving a strategic inflection point involves changing members of management one way or another.

Start With No, Page 143

Discipline is difficult. But without discipline, you will never be a great negotiator. You will leave money on the table every time.

The Making of a Manager, Page 143

There are only a handful of reasons for people to get together in person, so being crystal clear about the outcomes you’re shooting for is the first step to running great meetings.

Decisive, Page 143

Whenever possible, we should get out of the business of precision altogether.

Team of Teams, Page 143

…at the broader institutional level, it is more difficult to engineer structures that are both coherent and improvisatory.

Range, Page 143

Having invested time or money in something, we are loath to leave it, because that would mean we had wasted our time or money, even though it is already gone.

Blink, Page 143

When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in inappropriate circumstance.

Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age, Page 143

…the keyword of all keywords… for any vision of media in the digital world that really wants to connect intent and content, marketers and consumers, prose and passion: intimacy.

Start With No, Page 143

There are just a million assumptions out there, lying in wait to ambush us.