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There’s more to learn from people who endured risk than those who seemingly conquered it, because the kind of skills you need to endure risk are more likely repeatable and relevant to future risks.

Every assignment would be delivered in five versions: A three page version, a one page version, a three paragraph version, a one paragraph version, and a one sentence version.

The Impact Filter, as a one-page document, solves this most pervasive leadership conundrum, and is comprised of the following questions: What is the project? Purpose: What do you want to accomplish? Importance: What’s the biggest difference this will make? Ideal Outcome: What does the completed project look like? Best Result: If you do take action?

Your warm-up should also include a strategic element. What is your game plan today on a strategic side?

The company's strategy is simple. Acquire small vertical software businesses with little competition, apply best practices from past experience and repeat as often as possible.

Without clarity, there’s nothing to focus on. Without clarity, there’s no sanity.

Affect (influence) vs. effect (accomplish)

• Compliment (praise) vs. complement (go well with)

• Discreet (careful) vs. discrete (distinct)

• Its (possessive) vs. it’s (it + is)

• Principle (rule) vs. principal (authority figure)

• They’re (they + are) vs. their (possessive) vs. there (adverb of place)

• Venomous (having a toxic bite or sting) vs.

Talking about emotions won’t compel a reader to feel those emotions. “He felt sad” won ‘t make a reader feel sad. Instead, the reader must be made to feel the situations in the story, to experience what the characters experience, and as a result, just as a sequence creates emotion in the characters, it will also do the same in the reader. This is a