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• I began to feel more and more that much of the success literature of the past 50 years was superficial. It was filled with social image consciousness, techniques and quick fixes—with social band-aids and aspirin that addressed acute problems and sometimes even appeared to solve them temporarily, but left the underlying chronic problems untouched to...
• Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately ...
• Yet I believe that most of us know the truth of what we really are inside; and I think many of those we live with and work with do as well.
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
• “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,”