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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
- Productivity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
- Connections
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
- Emotional Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
- Nov 07, 2020
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
- Conformity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
To grow, people need to be challenged.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
- Best Interests
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- Nov 07, 2020
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conformity is dangerous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
- Nov 07, 2020
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020