Book Titles

Playing Big
Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message

By Tara Mohr

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1594206078
Categories: Messages, Mission, Voices

54 Quotes Found

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Playing Big:

Feedback is vital not because it tells us about our own value but because it tells us whether we are reaching the people we need to reach.

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Playing Big:

Feedback… is meant to give you tactical information about how to reach the people you want to reach.

103

Playing Big:

Much of the feedback you’ll receive is not important to integrate into your work.

104

Playing Big:

…stop thinking of criticism as a signal of a problem and start thinking of criticism as part and parcel of doing important work.

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Playing Big:

…any substantive work draws a wide range of reactions.

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Playing Big:

…often what feels like a problem with painful criticism is really a problem with what we believe about ourselves.

110

Playing Big:

The criticism that most hurts us mirror’s a negative belief we hold about ourselves.

121

Playing Big:

We need to effectively challenge authority, not just adapt to it. We need to influence authority figures, not just please them.

126

Playing Big:

To play big, we need to evaluate which authority figures to seek out and cultivate as allies and which to move away from or simply ignore.

127

Playing Big:

…studies show that because of subtle bias, women have to perform better than their male counterparts to be seen as performing equally.

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