Dani Hayer

“A phone call? The WORST.” —FEMALE FOCUS GROUP PARTICIPANT
“If you want to talk to me, you’re going to have to call me.” —ANOTHER FEMALE FOCUS GROUP PARTICIPANT
[Dumbfounded] —EVERY GUY IN THAT FOCUS GROUP”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Good leaders constantly worry about their limited ability to see. To rise above those limitations, good leaders exercise judgment, which is a different thing from intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to solve a problem, to decipher a riddle, to master a set of facts. Judgment is the ability to orbit a problem or a set of facts and see it as it might be seen through other eyes, by observers with different biases, motives, and backgrounds. It is also the ability to take a set of facts and move it in place and time—perhaps to a hearing room or a courtroom, months or years in the future—or to the newsroom of a major publication or the boardroom of a competitor. Intelligence is the ability to collect and report what the documents and witnesses say; judgment is the ability to say what those same facts mean and what effect they will have on other audiences.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“Speaking candidly to a peer requires us to risk exposure. Speaking uphill to a leader is scarier. Speaking to the top leader of the organization is scarier still. And in a paramilitary organization of many layers like the FBI, dominated for its first half-century by a single person, J. Edgar Hoover, the hill is mighty steep. And it is harder than that, because getting the speakers to overcome their impostor complex is only half the answer. The leaders must also overcome their own impostor complex—their fear of being less than perfect.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership