“Takers tend to worry that revealing weaknesses will compromise their dominance and authority. Givers are much more comfortable expressing vulnerability: they’re interested in helping others, not gaining power over them, so they’re not afraid of exposing chinks in their armor. By making themselves vulnerable, givers can actually build prestige. But there’s a twist: expressing vulnerability is only effective if the audience receives other signals establishing the speaker’s competence.”
― Give and Take: From the author of million-copy bestseller THINK AGAIN
― Give and Take: From the author of million-copy bestseller THINK AGAIN
“Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.”
― Knowledge and Christian Belief
― Knowledge and Christian Belief
“The most obvious examples of pathological problems are: uncontrollable negative cash flow, continuous emigration of key human resources away from the organization, unresolved quality problems, rapidly declining market share, and tremendous drops in the company’s capacity to raise financial resources. Organizations with those problems can’t afford therapy because therapy takes time, and time is a resource those organizations do not have. Instead of an organizational therapist, the board should hire an organizational turnaround specialist who can temporarily take on the chief executive officer’s role, and perform whatever “surgery” is necessary.”
― Managing Corporate Lifecycles - Volume 1: How Organizations Grow, Age & Die
― Managing Corporate Lifecycles - Volume 1: How Organizations Grow, Age & Die
“As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
― Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
― Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
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