Quotes

Atomic Habits, Page 144

…no sooner has frequent repetition cut a pathway… difficulty vanishes; the actions become so automatic that they can be performed while the mind is otherwise engaged.

The Coaching Habit, Page 144

…use the phrase ‘Out of curiosity.’ What this does is shift the question from perhaps coming across as an inquisition to being a more noble inquiry.

ReWork, Page 144

When you get suckered into an arms race, you wind up in a never-ending battle that costs you massive amounts of money, time, and drive. And it forces you to constantly be on the defensive, too.

The Effective Manager, Page 144

Great managers will tell you that they give out far more positive than negative performance communications.

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Page 144

The fight response to a feeling of insufficient value is to call attention to ourselves more aggressively.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 144

In small organizations, where we able to know everyone, it is much easier for us to do the work necessary to look after them.

The Messy Middle, Page 144

We vastly underestimate how much the products we use impact the products we create.

ReWork, Page 144

Defensive companies can’t think ahead; they can only think behind. They don’t lead; they follow.

Quit, Page 144

When we commit to a course of action, it means that, in some sense, we now own that decision.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 144

If you are describing a purpose that deep down you know you can’t achieve, you are dooming your chances of climbing out of the valley of death.