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[
{
"quote": "People often attempt to address complex problems with complex solutions.",
"bookTitle": "Simple Rules (Donald Sull)\r"
},
{
"quote": "The leaders provide cover from above and the people on the ground look out for each other.",
"bookTitle": "Leaders Eat Last_ Why Some Teams Pull Toge - Sinek, Simon (Christian Vuerings)\r"
},
{
"quote": "When you see a person’s body language and facial expression, you can adjust how you are delivering the message so they can best hear it.",
"bookTitle": "Radical Candor (Kim Scott)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Values serve as a kind of psychological keel to keep you steady.",
"bookTitle": "Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life (Susan David)\r"
},
{
"quote": "The difference is not simply a matter of determination, but more of trust and faith.",
"bookTitle": "Mastery (Robert Greene)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.",
"bookTitle": "Big Potential (Shawn Achor)\r"
},
{
"quote": "We must embrace the notion that answers are in fact quite boring.",
"bookTitle": "A More Beautiful Question (Warren Berger)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Satya Nadella , CEO of Microsoft, still has a culture that if a developer ever has a choice between working on a feature or developer productivity, they should always choose developer productivity.",
"bookTitle": "The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Chapman understood that to earn the trust of people, the leaders of an organization must first treat them like people.",
"bookTitle": "Leaders Eat Last_ Why Some Teams Pull Toge - Sinek, Simon (Christian Vuerings)\r"
},
{
"quote": "All who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they \"arrive.\"",
"bookTitle": "Think_and_Grow_Rich (Maalli)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Focus on the road, not the wall.",
"bookTitle": "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Horowitz, Ben)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.",
"bookTitle": "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Horowitz, Ben)\r"
},
{
"quote": "No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on.",
"bookTitle": "The Courage to Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi;Fumitake Koga)\r"
},
{
"quote": "If and when a leader does emerge, that person has little power over others. The best - that person can do to influence people is to lead by example.",
"bookTitle": "The Starfish and Spider (vueringschristian@gmail.com)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds.",
"bookTitle": "Tiny Beautiful Things (Cheryl Strayed)\r"
},
{
"quote": "The poor reported trade-off thinking almost twice as often as the better off.",
"bookTitle": "Scarcity: Why having too little means so much (Mullainathan, Sendhil;Sharif, Eldar)\r"
},
{
"quote": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.… —Theodore Roosevelt",
"bookTitle": "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Brown, Brene)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Steve Jobs said, “focusing is about saying no.”.",
"bookTitle": "Thrive (Arianna Huffington)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is a result of thought, not impulse.",
"bookTitle": "The Motivation Manifesto (Brendon Burchard)\r"
}
]
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