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“In any hierarchical organization, the playing field is rarely level. The senior leaders stand on the high side of the field and ideas and policies roll easily down to the lower side. Policies—established to create order—often unintentionally keep people from thinking. At”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“A group of Stanford scientists have recently shown that people who regularly multitask with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory, or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time.32 “We kept looking for what they’re better at, and we didn’t find it,” said Professor Eyal Ophir, the study’s lead author. “They’re suckers for irrelevancy,” added Professor Clifford Nass, one of the researchers. 33 Professor Nass continues: “Virtually all multitaskers think they are brilliant at multitasking. And one of the big discoveries is: you know what, you’re really lousy at it. It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking … they get distracted constantly. Their memory is very disorganized.… We worry that it may be creating people who are unable to think well and clearly.”34”
― Shirzad Chamine, Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS

“The principles of classical management theory have become so deeply ingrained in the ways managers think about organizations that for most of them the design of formal structures, linked by clear lines of communication, coordination, and control, has become almost second nature. This largely unconscious embrace of the mechanistic approach to management has now become one of the main obstacles to organizational change.”
― Fritjof Capra, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

“In the most trying times, you would trust your people; you would extend hard challenges to them and allow them space to fulfill their responsibilities. You would access their intelligence in a way that would actually make them smarter.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter