“The key is to fail, learn, and improve quickly. If you’re constantly learning and improving, your evolutionary process will be ascending. Do do it poorly, it will be descending. So I believe evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest award.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“It’s more important to do big things well than to do the small things perfectly.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“When a problem occurs, conduct the discussion at two levels: 1) the machine level (why that outcome was produced) and 2) the case-at-hand level (what to do about it).”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Remember that most people are happiest when they are improving and doing the things that suit them naturally and help them advance. So learning about your people’s weaknesses is just as valuable (for them and for you) as is learning their strengths.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true. If you are too proud of what you know or of how good you are at something you will learn less, make inferior decisions, and fall short of your potential.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
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