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Make it clear who is directing the meeting and whom it is meant to serve.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Successful people are those who can go above themselves to see things objectively and manage those things to shape change.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Sustained Dialogue.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
The best way to solve a management problem, he believed, was through “creative confrontation”—by facing people “bluntly, directly, and unapologetically.”*
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Leadership: Framing oneself, or another person or community, as uniquely worthy and deserving of the power to determine the type, mode, and direction of change.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
To bring about better organizations, we need to risk speaking the truth of our soul and learn to navigate the conflicts that might ensue.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
The first step toward change is awareness.
John C. Maxwell • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
All transformation is linguistic, which means that we can think of community as essentially a conversation. This means that if we want to change the community, all we have to do is change the conversation. The shift in conversation is from one of problems, fear, and retribution to one of possibility, generosity, and restoration.
Peter Block • Community
you really want to improve the overall functioning of the system – whether that system is a manufacturing process, a procedure in your department, or some routine in your daily life – you need to identify the “slowest hiker.”