Andrew

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“Water will wear away stone, but it won’t cook supper. Everything has its own strengths. Said with enough irony, it could also imply that since the gods surely had a purpose for everyone the person in question must be good for something, but the speaker couldn’t fathom what it might be.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword

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“The ability to confront and work through conflict, without the drama and angst that we typically associate with it, is at the heart of making a fluid hierarchy work. Conflict resolution has long been an underdeveloped skill inside organizations.”
― Jamie Notter, When Millennials Take Over: Preparing For The Ridiculously Optimistic Future Of Business

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“Then he discovered the library’s collection of agriculture books, which included works by Sir Albert Howard and Rudolf Steiner. “I read them and it clicked,” he said. “I mean, it all just came together.”
― Dan Barber, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

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“It is not the absence of hierarchy or the uniformity of decision-making authority that makes an organization fluid. It is the ability to shift and morph those things in the service of accomplishing more.”
― Jamie Notter, When Millennials Take Over: Preparing For The Ridiculously Optimistic Future Of Business

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“Creating pull is about mastering the skills required to drive our own learning; it’s about how to recognize and manage our resistance, how to engage in feedback conversations with confidence and curiosity, and even when the feedback seems wrong, how to find insight that might help us grow.”
― Douglas Stone, Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

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