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Their habits were a barrier.
Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect
‘Grove famously said that about a third of the people he hires are great: they transform the function they’re in charge of, they inspire brilliant people and make his business fundamentally better,’ summarised Marsh. Another third are OK. They don’t really do much harm, or much good. And about a third are a disaster, and if he didn’t get rid of the
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There is a deep yearning for human contact and a resentment of bombast.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
One of his observations is that when any aspect of a living system is torn from its contextual relationships, it can then be exploited. How a description is made of a person, a family, a community, a culture, or an ecosystem –matters.
Alexander Beiner • The Bigger Picture
As I see it, leaders like Walter Brown and Red Auerbach were infinitely more effective because they had this unexpected side to them. But why tenderness should be effective rather than merely decorative is interesting.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
THE PEOPLE QUESTION