Quotes

The 5 Levels of Leadership, Page 141

…leaders cannot delegate the solving of problems to someone else. They have to be active in breaking through obstacles, putting out fires, correcting mistakes, and directing people.

Team of Teams, Page 141

…most organizations are more concerned with how best to control information than how best to share it.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 141

Real, live human interaction is how we feel a part of something, develop trust and have capacity to feel for others. It is how we innovate.

Primal Leadership, Page 141

When crafting specific, manageable goals, it works best to tie them in to goals that motivate you and ignite your full talents.

Blink, Page 141

Deliberate thinking is a wonderful tool when we have the luxury of time, the help of a computer, and a clearly defined task, and the fruits of that type of analysis can set the stage for rapid cognition.

The Art of the Start 2.0, Page 142

The 10/20/30 Rule of Presentations is that you should use ten slides in twenty minutes with a minimum of thirty-point text.

Stumbling on Happiness, Page 142

One of the most insidious things about side-by-side comparison is that it leads us to pay attention to any attribute that distinguishes the possibilities we are comparing.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 142

…it takes a lot of conviction and trusting your gut to get ahead of your peers, your staff and your employees while they are still squabbling about which path to take, and set an unhesitating, unequivocal course whose rightness or wrongness will not be known for years.

Primal Leadership, Page 142

Setting developmental goals that matter takes us from merely contemplating change to making concrete steps that prepare us to change.

Focus, Page 142

One of the worst results of system blindness occurs when leaders implement a strategy to solve a problem – but ignore the pertinent system dynamics.