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    Chip Heath
    “Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.”
    ― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: design, exupery, perfection
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    Chip Heath
    “Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Chip Heath
    “The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “Create a need for closure.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “You say 10 things, you say nothing.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know :" Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “The company wants to sell you more shampoo, your friend doesn't, so she gets more trust points.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “There's no such thing as a passive audience.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Chip Heath
    “Stories should put knowledge into a frame work that is more lifelike.”
    ― Chip Heath and Dan Heath
    tags: made-to-stick
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    Peter L. Bernstein
    “Time matters most when decisions are irreversible.”
    ― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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    Peter L. Bernstein
    “The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay”
    ― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: happiness, life-lessons, self-control
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    Dale Carnegie
    “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
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    “In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.”
    ― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web
    tags: content, deliver, promise, role, roles, strategy, useful, willingness
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    Zach Mercurio
    “People will copy what you do and how you do it, but they can never copy WHY you are.”
    ― Zach Mercurio, The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, meaning, purpose, strategy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: discovery, idea, innovation, psychology, science, strategy
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    Farshad Asl
    “If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.”
    ― Farshad Asl
    tags: leadership, strategy, stretch, struggling
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    “A Strategy, no matter how beautifully crafted, has to be executed by and with the people. Therefore, Invest in the people. Communicate the vision and strategy to them. Give them the opportunity to demonstrate how their day-to-day activities contribute to the organisation's strategy”
    ― Benjamin Kofi Quansah, CGMS
    tags: balanced-scorecard, strategy, strategy-execution, vision
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    Richie Norton
    “Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.”
    ― Richie Norton
    tags: business, entrepreneurship, existing-resources, innovation, lean, leverage, management, startup, strategy, time
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: business, hard-work, productivity, strategy
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    Robin Sharma
    “Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
    ― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
    tags: management, persistence, strategy
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    Rajen Jani
    “Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.”
    ― Rajen Jani, Once Upon A Time: 100 Management Stories
    tags: anger, change, communication, conflict, customer, improvement, inspirational, knowledge, leadership, management, motivation, performance, problem, quality, relationship, sales, strategy, success, team, time, training, work
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    Napoleon Hill
    “If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.”
    ― Napoleon Hill
    tags: business, focus, productivity, self-esteem, strategy
    3 likes



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