Book Titles

That’s the funny thing about stopping some behavior. It gets no attention, but it can be as crucial as everything else we do combined.

All things being equal, your people skills (or lack of them) become more pronounced the higher up you go.

…even when all other things are not equal, your people skills often make the difference in high you go.

As we advance in our careers, behavioral changes are often the only significant changes we can make.

Our obsession with winning rears its noisome head across the spectrum of human endeavor, not just among senior executives.

…the urge to win trumps our common sense. We do the wrong thing even when we know what we should do.

…the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.

People don’t like to be critiqued, however obliquely. That’s why passing judgment is one of the more insidious ways we push people away and hold ourselves back from greater success.

The only sure thing that comes out of passing judgment on people’s efforts to help is that they won’t help us again.

When you don’t judge an idea, no one can argue with you.