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  • One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

  • For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

  • If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

  • We treasure what we can measure.

  • When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

  • I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

  • Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

  • Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  • Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

  • If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

  • Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

  • I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

    "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.
  • If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

  • The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

  • There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.

  • Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

  • As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

  • The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

    "Dare to disagree". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.
  • Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

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  • Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

  • In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

  • Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

    "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
  • On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

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  • Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

  • Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

  • Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

  • Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

  • I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

  • The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

    "Is Conflict Good For Progress?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.
  • Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

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