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I tend to pull nuggets out of many books – rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

Knowledge Nuggets, Diverse Reading, Intellectual Exploration, Books, Learning, Exploration

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books –

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books –

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books –

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“Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly “soft” aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.”

Soft Aptitudes, Crowded Marketplace, Design Mastery, Design, Empathy, Play

“A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.”

Ambivert Nature, Social Balance, Selling Skills, Extraverts, Introverts, Ambiverts

“We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.”

Conceptual Age, Empathic Economy, Big Picture, Innovation, Transition, Creativity

“I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.”

Career Passion, Personal Time, Natural Interests, Careers, Passion, Interests

“Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn’t know they were missing them.”

Mass Adoption, Consumer Behavior, IPod Evolution, Technology, Innovation, Trends

“Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others–sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on–can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”

Healthy Goals, Personal Mastery, Goal Imposition, Motivation, Growth, Danger

“Do what you can’t and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.”

Mistakes Beauty, Experience Growth, Creative Freedom, Learning, Courage, Discovery

“What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn’t know it was missing.”

Entrepreneurial Creativity, Artistic Vision, World Contribution, Entrepreneurs, Artists, Creativity

“Hire good people, and leave them alone.”

Leadership Principles, Empowering Teams, Trust Building, Hiring, People, Trust

“In the middle, we relax our standards, perhaps because others relax their assessments.”

Relaxed Standards, Middle Ground, Lowered Assessments, Standards, Relaxation, Assessments

“Think of this book as a new genre altogether – a when-to book.”

New Genre, When-To Book, Time Decisions, Creativity, Innovation, Ideas

“Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.”

Experimental Work, Continuous Progress, Creative Exploration, Experiment, Progress, Creativity

“Too much negative emotion, of course, is debilitating. But too little is also destructive.”

Negative Emotion, Emotional Balance, Mental Health, Positivity, Resilience, Growth

“Jobs that offer autonomy but little challenge bore us.”

Little Challenge, Job Autonomy, Work Engagement, Jobs, Autonomy, Challenge

“The lesson of closed doors is to do better next time. The lesson of open doors is to do something now.”

Life Lessons, Next Time, Open Doors, Resilience, Opportunity, Action

“Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.”

Empathy Practice, Emotional Resilience, Political Insight, Empathy, Resilience, Politics

“In the new world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask.”

Right Questions, Sales Strategies, Education Gaps, Inquiry, Leadership, Creativity

“If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.”

Work Motivation, Fearful Workers, Low Effort, Motivation, Fear, Grievance

“The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.”

College Skills, Communication Clarity, Argument Making, Skills, Communication, Learning

“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it’s a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”

Personal Fulfillment, Excess Compliance, Active Engagement, Fulfillment, Compliance, Engagement