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“Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.”
― Keith Ferrazzi

“You can’t force people to change—you can only help them want to.”
― Anonymous

“One of the best ways to change human behavior is to gather people with similar problems together.”
― Anonymous

“worldwide director of strategy and innovation”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“Strunk and White wrote in Elements of Style, “Do not overstate…a single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole.”
― Anonymous

“Becoming a C is an opportunity to learn new skills too: how to make things happen without any overt power; how to negotiate, among a diverse group of hotheads, a unified recommendation for the A; how to manage the fall-out from an unpopular decision, and smooth the way for its flawless execution.”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“Fixers can be reviled, Erika was revered.”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“four things that the ideal C should be: content, constant, catalytic and courageous.”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“Alain Forget offers us a four-step process by which we can anchor ourselves. Distancing lets us witness our self; discernment reveals what lies beneath our dysfunction; disidentification comes from letting go; and discrimination takes us to places where our ego might not wish to wander.”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow, so that when his dog died the world ended.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Choosing This may be easier for the C, who only has to choose one partner, than for the A who has to select many. True, the A can hedge their bets but the C only gets one roll of the dice, one chance to get it right.”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“It’s Time to Split HR 500 words HBR article by Ram Charan, July–August Many CEOs are disappointed with their HR departments. Charan proposes a radical solution: Eliminate the position of chief human resources officer and split HR into two functions: HR-A (administration), which would manage compensation and benefits and report to the CFO, and HR-LO (leadership and organization), which would focus on improving people capabilities and report to the CEO. Here’s what our readers had to say:”
― Anonymous

“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“So, even if you have most of the grey cells in the meeting, be clever enough to conceal your cleverness, if only to diffuse the insecurity of the A and his other Cs.”
― Richard Hytner, Consiglieri - Leading from the Shadows: Why Coming Top Is Sometimes Second Best

“Start the healing process by keeping a journal of your child's daily activities and behavior, marking down routine events along with the behavior that accompanies these events. After about a week or two of journaling, parents find that patterns emerge.”
― Karyn B. Purvis, The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family

“Psychologists call this disconnect the transparency illusion.”
― Anonymous

“Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“study after study shows that people who think not only about their dreams, but about the obstacles that lie in the way of realizing their dreams—believing they can overcome those obstacles and planning how they’ll make it happen—vastly outperform those who sit back and wait for the universe to reward them for all their positive thinking.”
― Heidi Grant Halvorson, The 8 Motivational Challenges

“As Aristotle observed, “A beautiful object, whether it be a living organism or any whole composed of parts, must not only have an orderly arrangement of parts, but must also be of a certain magnitude; for beauty depends on magnitude and order.”
― Ian Kerner, She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

“The Show-off Promotion Focus/Be-Good Mindset/Confidence Symptoms: Takes on too much Reckless Competitive with colleagues/fellow students Brags Tunes out criticism Treatment: 1. Shift mindset to Get-Better 2. Create fit for promotion focus”
― Heidi Grant Halvorson, The 8 Motivational Challenges

“And so we’re overbrave and overfearful—we’re kind and cruel as children. We’re overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We’re oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic—and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture? That’s what we are, Cal—all of us.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Maybe you’ll come to know that every man in every generation is refired.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“Studies suggest that in order to figure out whether you are trustworthy, others analyze your words and deeds to find the answers to two questions: Do you have good intentions toward me—are you a friend or a foe? Do you have what it takes to act on those intentions?”
― Heidi Grant Halvorson, No One Understands You and What to Do About It

“Research shows that eye contact, nodding, and smiling are the three key physical indicators of warmth. Research also shows that people generally have no idea when they are not doing these things, so you might want to ask your friends and family if this is something you need to work on.9”
― Heidi Grant Halvorson, No One Understands You and What to Do About It

“Your posture, like it or not, tells people a lot about you.”
― Heidi Grant Halvorson, No One Understands You and What to Do About It

“Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in—but only to be moved out from.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“As Bill Plotkin, a wise guide, puts it, many of us learn to do our “survival dance,” but we never get to our actual “sacred dance.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life