“Every time you speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” —JAMES HUMES

“Every time you speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” —JAMES HUMES”
― You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World
― You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World

“We don’t want machines with our type of intelligence. We actually want machines whose actions can be expected to achieve our objectives, not their objectives.”
― Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it
― Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it
“The fastest way to build trust is to make promises, then keep them. And the fastest way to destroy trust is to do the opposite.”
― You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World
― You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —MICHAEL JORDAN, basketball star”
― You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World
― You've Got 8 Seconds: Communication Secrets for a Distracted World

“All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb “to move,” plus the prefix “e-” to connote “move away,” suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion.”
― Emotional Intelligence
― Emotional Intelligence
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