Top 50 Best Quotes from “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden
Permanent Record, Book by Edward Snowden Revealing state secrets is hard, but revealing yourself in a memoir might be even harder. As Edward Snowden writes in the preface of “Permanent Record”: “The decision to come forward with evidence of government wrongdoing was...Top 42 Quotes from Think Again by Adam Grant
Photo by Rob Schreckhise on Unsplash “Think Again is a must-read… In an increasingly divided world, the lessons in this book are more important than ever.” –Bill and Melinda Gates Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know is...Top 25 Quotes From The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Robert Iger’s book The Ride of a Lifetime is a memoir of his career, leadership and success. It became the #1 New York Times Bestseller. Throughout the book, The Ride of a Lifetime, Iger shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as Disney CEO, leading its 200,000 employees, while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies. Robert Iger was nominated Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year.
The Power of Compounded Growth and Lifelong Learning
“Compounding is the process in which an asset’s earnings, from either capital gains or interest, are reinvested to generate additional earnings over time. This growth, calculated using exponential functions, occurs because the investment will generate...How Not to Take Things Personally? | Frederik Imbo
I loved this Ted Talk about not taking things personally by Frederik Imbo About Frederik Imbo Frederik Imbo studied theatre at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and has acted in lots of television series. He founded Imboorling and now has over 15 years’ experience...Change Leadership: John Kotter’s 8-Step Model
Kotter’s 8-step model is one of the most well-known and widely used change management frameworks. It outlines how to systematically and effectively implement change in an organization.
John P. Kotter’s Top 48 Best Quotes
“Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.”
Top 85 Best Quotes from “Quiet: The Power of Introverts”
In her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so
David Epstein’s BYU Speech “The Path of Most Resistance: How to Learn For a Changing World”
I read Davis Epstein’s book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World last summer and I really liked it a lot. The book makes you rethink about the prevalent idea that specialization is the right way to build your career. Perhaps for some it actually...WHEN COLLABORATION MAY KILL CREATIVITY
If you had gathered the same people who created Linux, installed them in a giant conference room for a year, and asked them to devise a new operating system, it’s doubtful that anything so revolutionary would have occurred.
Top 40 Quotes from The Coddling of the American Mind
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the authors make the case that our culture has embraced three Great Untruths in the past ten years or so: The Untruth...6 Interesting Facts and Best 40 Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr.
6 Things You May Not Know About Martin Luther King Jr. 1. King’s birth name was Michael, not Martin. Martin Luther original name was Michael King Jr. In 1934, however, his father, a Baptist pastor, traveled to Germany and was inspired by the life of...60 Insightful Quotes From The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
Peter Senge is the author of the book “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.” The Fifth Discipline is focused on group problem solving using the systems thinking method to convert companies into learning organizations.
100 Powerful Quotes From President Russell M. Nelson
“Over my nine and a half decades of life, I have concluded that counting our blessings is far better than recounting our problems.” – Russell M. Nelson
The 90 Best Warren Buffett Quotes
Warren Edward Buffett is considered one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of over US $78.9 billion as of August 2020, making him the world’s fourth-wealthiest person. Buffett was born...13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin
Everyone has the ability to build mental strength, but most people don’t know how or don’t give enough importance to it. People spend a lot more time talking about physical strength and physical health, but much less time on mental strength and mental health.
If You Regularly Say “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way” You May Lack Empathy
According to an article on Inc.com if you regularly say “I’m sorry you feel that way” or some variation of this phrase, you may lack empathy, because “you can’t actually be sorry for the way someone else feels. You can only be sorry for...38 Quotes From Start With No by Jim Camp
“We’re all professional negotiators. Most of us don’t think of ourselves that way, but we’re all trying to make agreements every day. We’re negotiating. Some of us do so haphazardly, maybe even lackadaisically, while some of us realize that since we’re always...Top 50 Quotes From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
Top 30 Quotes (and Tips) From Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Does we really need seven or eight hours of sleep a night? The answer is that we do, even if we have convinced ourselves that we don’t.
Success and Failure: What Bill Gates Learned and 23 Inspiring Quotes
Most of us assume that everything that isn’t success must be failure. But the opposite of success isn’t failure. Or, it doesn’t have to be…
80 Top Quotes From Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
35 Best Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.” ― James Clear
Top 26 Quotes from “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam M. Grant
“Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam M. Grant. How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In...Top 45 Quotes From “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein is a research-driven study about learning, education and jobs. Range is a book about the value of being a generalist rather than a specialist. Epstein argues that many of the most effective people...Optimism and Pessimism: Two Ways of Looking at Life
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions to Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
“Always remember there are only two kinds of people in this world—the realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they’re going. The dreamers have already been there.”
The Law of Legacy (#21) – The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
The great management guru Peter Drucker once said, “There is no success without a successor.” In other words, lasting achievement is really only achieved if it continues after we’re gone.
Top 60 Quotes From “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csíkszentmihályi outlines his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow—a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation.
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