Andy

“top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“When an organization does worse immediately after the departure of a leader, what does this say about that person’s leadership?”
― L. David Marquet, Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

“Every circumstance in which we try to move others by definition involves another human being. Yet in the name of professionalism, we often neglect the human element and adopt a stance that’s abstract and distant.”
― Daniel H. Pink, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others

“When you’re trying to change employees’ behaviors, you have basically two approaches to choose from: change your own thinking and hope this leads to new behavior, or change your behavior and hope this leads to new thinking.”
― L. David Marquet, Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders