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Much had changed since. No longer was China unified under a virtuous and powerful Zhou king. By 700 bce the country had splintered into small, independent, and often warring states,
“Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.”
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“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.”
― Unreliable Memoirs
― Unreliable Memoirs
“Employees come to us in a state of readiness to engage, and it is the behavior and decisions of managers and organizational leaders that can result in even the best employees becoming disengaged over time.”
― Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT
― Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT
“The most common reason that employees fail to meet performance expectations is that those expectations were never made clear in the first place.”
― Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT
― Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT
“From the moment I first started studying joy, it was clear that the liveliest places and objects all have one thing in common: bright, vivid color. Whether it’s a row of houses painted in bold swaths of candy hues or a display of colored markers in a stationery shop, vibrant color invariably sparks a feeling of delight.”
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
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