that meetings are the most important work that a CEO does. And that bad meetings, boring meetings, ineffective meetings were my fault, and were lethal to the company. Until I really believed that, no meeting tactics or tools were going to
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“Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun,”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“People value shiny stones and lucky charms, but they forget that the most powerful talismans of all are the stories that we tell to ourselves and to others.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
“What hubris it was, he said, that mankind should think to halve the powers of the human race by ignoring the minds and words of the female half of it.)”
― The Clockmaker’s Daughter
― The Clockmaker’s Daughter
“Human beings are curators. Each polishes his or her own favoured memories, arranging them in order to create a narrative that pleases. Some events are repaired and polished for display; others are deemed unworthy and cast aside, shelved below ground in the overflowing storeroom of the mind. There, with any luck, they are promptly forgotten. The process is not dishonest: it is the only way that people can live with themselves and the weight of their experiences.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
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