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Companies that are made up of clusters of leaders will actually accelerate their growth by speeding up their rate of innovation as their competition pulls back, build better teams by investing in people while their rivals shrink training budgets, and pick up top talent as their industry peers lay
fast companies get that unsettling times are actually gifts for them and periods to get so far ahead of the competition that they can never catch up.”
have the courage to concentrate your greatest abilities on your largest opportunities, even if that thought frightens you.
more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand.
embracing the deepest of change out on the edge, under the most challenging of conditions, is actually the safest place to be.
an organization that has a culture where everyone’s afraid to speak candidly is a place where people live amid delusion and fantasy.
if something’s important to someone important to you, it should become important to you as well.”
say exactly what you need to say but using uplifting words.
they become fantastic at the few things they focus on.
being in the process of shifting from chaotic complexity to elegant simplicity.
No point in spending your days climbing a series of mountains, only to realize that in the end you scaled the wrong ones.
Get to know your priorities well.
Sometimes you need to slow down to speed up.
you write out your Daily 5. That will focus you beautifully on your core priorities.
for every dream that dies, a better one can come to life.
“Sometimes success isn’t about making the right decision— it’s more about making some decision—and then moving it forward with speed and elegance,”
encourages the efforts of others, who looks for what’s good in people, and who applauds even the smallest positive act that they do.
Smart businesspeople keep it easy.”
always do more than you are paid to do.
understanding people.
deep listening.
Most people’s idea of listening is simply waiting until the other person has finished talking so they can share the reply they’ve been rehearsing.
your mind is no place for even a single negative one.
