We live in both a material economy and a pride economy,
“It should come as no surprise that the real value and benefit of accountability stems from a person’s or an organization’s ability to influence events and outcomes before they happen.”
― The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
― The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“There’s no skill in birth and death. At the beginning and at the end, luck reigns unchallenged. Here’s the truth: most of the world is noise, and we spend most of our lives trying to make sense of it. We are, in the end, nothing more than interpreters of static.”
― The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
― The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
“The message: Sometimes you must be willing to burn all your other ships and grasp the helm of the one under your command. Doing so can stimulate the conviction and create the ownership necessary to get started on a new program of action that will help you rise above your circumstances.”
― The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
― The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
“people must abandon the past-oriented, blame-centered who-done-it definition of accountability.”
― The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
― The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
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