Carmela Prado

“It’s easy for bosses to say good-bye to people they don’t really know. Make your termination a hard conversation for a boss to have, and it will be less likely to happen.”
― Robin Dreeke, Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction

“Genuine, self-critical honesty is a great way to help people respect and admire you. It’s the ultimate in transparency, and when you’re transparent about your own shortcomings or question your own strategies, other people don’t have to—which often results in them making your case for you. It’s scary the first few times you do it, but it works wonders.”
― Robin Dreeke, Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction

“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.”
― Richard Koch, The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

“Act like who you are. It’s not a dangerous strategy—unless you’re a jerk—and will probably break the ice enough to integrate you more fully into your position.”
― Robin Dreeke, Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction