Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they’ll find a way to screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a good team, and they’ll find a way to make it better.
“And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“This is the way high-purpose environments work. They are about sending not so much one big signal as a handful of steady, ultra-clear signals that are aligned with a shared goal.”
― The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
― The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
“There's an age-old maxim in the Black community: You've got to be twice as good to get half as far.”
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“You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Educated
― Educated
“you may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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