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“There seems to be a culture in many organisations of simply holding meetings as a substitute for actually getting on with the job.”
― Ian Cooper, Financial Times Guide to Business Development, The: How To Win Profitable Customers And Clients

“confidence that its sales force will react accordingly. Crisp Sales Objectives are the difference between a chaotic selling effort and a precision selling effort.”
― Jason Jordan

“Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes—and most fools do—but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“the goal of good learning design is for learners to emerge from the learning experience with new or improved capabilities that they can take back to the real world, that help them do the things they need or want to do.”
― Anonymous

“Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field.”
― Inge Ignatia de Waard, MOOC YourSelf - Set up your own MOOC for Business, Non-Profits, and Informal Communities

“Enfrente de nosotros había sentada una mujer joven. Llevaba un vestido de color verde oliva y un chal negro en la cabeza para protegerse del frío de la noche. Cada vez que el camión daba una sacudida o tropezaba”
― Anonymous

“Interactivity is an exercise or activity that allows the learner to become more involved with the content by discovering information and checking knowledge through assessments, simulations, and games as opposed to simply reading text on the computer screen.”
― Marina Arshavskiy, Instructional Design for ELearning: Essential guide to creating successful eLearning courses

“People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.”
― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“it can be the honesty and trustworthiness of our sources, not their status, that allows them to act as authorities. Sometimes”
― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“customers aren’t looking for reps to anticipate, or “discover,” needs they already know they have, but rather to teach them about opportunities to make or save money that they didn’t even know were possible.”
― Matthew Dixon, The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

“Competencies, when measurable through behaviors or work outputs, become a foundation for planning for talent, building talent, and acquiring talent. Although”
― William J. Rothwell, Competency-Based Training Basics

“In an age of network tools, in other words, knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative—constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are. Having”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They’re easier.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Knowledge workers, I’m arguing, are tending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The faculty and students share ownership of the learning outcomes; the students assume responsibility for their learning, and the faculty assumes responsibility for providing appropriate resources for that learning.”
― Tina Goodyear, Competency-Based Education and Assessment: The Excelsior Experience

“What you know is more important than where or how you learned it.” Little”
― Tina Goodyear, Competency-Based Education and Assessment: The Excelsior Experience

“El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“El hereje no es el que arde en la hoguera, sino el que la enciende". La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud suprema en los que piensan.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“En la vida se es actor o público, timonel o galeote. Es tan doloroso pasar del timón al remo, como salir del escenario para ocupar una butaca, aunque ésta sea de primera fila. El que ha conocido el aplauso no sabe resignarse a la oscuridad; ésa es la parte más cruel de toda preeminencia fundada en el capricho ajeno o en aptitudes físicas transitorias.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“Entre nobles caracteres la amistad crece despacio y prospera mejor cuando arraiga en el reconocimiento de los méritos recíprocos; entre hombres vulgares crece inmotivadamente, pero permanece raquítica, fundándose a menudo en la complicidad del vicio o de la intriga.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“¡Cuántos hay que parecen hombres y sólo valen por las posiciones alcanzadas en las piaras mediocráticas! Vistos de cerca, examinadas sus obras, son menos que nada, valores negativos. Sombras.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“El coraje sentenció Lamartine- es la primera de las elocuencias, es la elocuencia del carácter". Noble decir. El que aspira a ser águila debe mirar lejos y volar alto; el que se resigna a arrastrarse como un gusano renuncia al derecho de protestar si lo aplastan.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“La envidia y la emulación parientes dicen que son; aunque en todo diferentes al fin también son parientes el diamante y el carbón.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“Admiremos a los viejos por las superioridades que hayan poseído en la juventud. No incurramos en la simpleza de esperar una vejez santa, heroica o genial tras una juventud equívoca, mansa y opaca; la vejez no pone flores donde sólo había malezas, antes bien, siega las excelencias con su hoz niveladora.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style

“Clever advertising can convince people to try a bad product once. But it can’t convince them to buy a product they’ve already tried and didn’t like.”
― Robert W. Bly, The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

“Stockpiling facts won’t get you anywhere. What will get you somewhere is being able to access the information you need, when you need it.”
― Reid Hoffman, The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

“For life in permanent beta, the trick is to never stop starting.”
― Reid Hoffman, The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

“The reality is that in the business world almost everyone is just a very small cog in a huge collection of cogs.2 2 Sorry. Try not to take it personally. Do good work. Enjoy your home life. Be happy.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability