HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Quotes

“One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. And yet most people—especially most teachers and most organizations—concentrate on making incompetent performers into mediocre ones. Energy, resources, and time should go instead to making a competent person into a star performer.”
― Harvard Business Review, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance

“Every action you take is like a vote for the type of person you want to become. And so, the more you show up and perform habits, the more you cast votes for being a certain type of person, the more you build up this body of evidence—the likelier you are to realize that, “Hey, this is who I actually am.”
― Harvard Business Review, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance

“The more we act a certain way—be it happy, depressed, or cranky—the more the behavior becomes ingrained in our brain circuitry, and the more we will continue to feel and act that way.”
― Harvard Business Review, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance

“Traditional, corrective feedback has its place, of course; every organization must filter out failing employees and ensure that everyone performs at an expected level of competence. But too much emphasis on problem areas prevents companies from reaping the best from their people. After all, it’s a rare baseball player who is equally good at every position. Why should a natural third baseman labor to develop his skills as a right fielder?”
― Harvard Business Review, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance