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a talented leader identifies the one or two critical issues in the situation—the pivot points that can multiply the effectiveness of effort—and then focuses and concentrates action and resources on them.
“famous Brazilian singer Anitta in her living room to discuss her upcoming Netflix documentary Vai Anitta. For the two hundred million people in Brazil, Anitta is like Madonna and Beyoncé combined,”
― No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
― No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”
― The Ring of Solomon
― The Ring of Solomon
“What’s the first thing we need to do here?” “What options do we have?” and “How might we get to a point where we can make an informed decision?”
― Invisible Leader: Facilitation secrets for catalyzing change, cultivating, innovation, and commanding results
― Invisible Leader: Facilitation secrets for catalyzing change, cultivating, innovation, and commanding results
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren’t thinking about.”
― The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
― The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
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