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“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” General George S. Patton, Jr.”
― Dan Norris, The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch

“The single greatest challenge to leaders today (and that includes thinkers, teachers, managers, presidents, parents, CEOs, designers, salespeople, students—all of us) is this: We have to make more increasingly complex ideas more clear, more quickly and more persuasively than ever, to more audiences who are more informed and have more access to more information than ever.”
― Dan Roam, Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work

“Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Gladwell refers to research done by the political scientist Ivan Arreguin-Toft, who looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years in which one side was at least ten times stronger than the other. He found that the weaker side won almost 30 percent of the time—a remarkable feat. The reason? They fought a different war than their opponents. The 70 percent that lost? They fought the conventional way; they engaged in battle using the same rules as their stronger opponents.”
― Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done