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Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should :hey be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

this result was particularly evident in people who were defined as “introverted” and tended to use more mental energy suppressing spontaneous or errant thoughts. The idea is that when you think of yourself as a child, your brain seems to reduce the power of the executive function, which is associated with adulthood—a simple trick to help you become

My impressions and perceptions are created by small actions that are meaningful for their symbolism, for what they reveal. How you behave during the interview (or proposal process) will be taken as a proxy for how you will deal with me after I retain you. Unlike the process of qualification, which is predominantly rational, logical, and based on fa

The Manager’s Essential Body Parts Management involves heart, gut, soul, and nose So . . . lead with your heart trust your gut (trust your hunches) build soul into the organization and develop a nose for bullshit

INDRA NOOYI Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

As researcher Teresa Amabile notes in the Harvard Business Review, ‘On days when workers have the sense they’re making headway in their jobs, or when they receive support that helps them overcome obstacles, their emotions are most positive and their drive to succeed is at its peak.’

It is typical that in creative environments spontaneous idea generation gets in the way of following through on any particular idea. The wise creative leader understands that idea generation is a wild animal that requires a stolid trainer to tame excitement with a healthy dose of skepticism. You need to say “no” more than you say “yes,” and you nee

Deliberately, somewhat surreptitiously, he separated his team from the rest of the company. “We’re building what I thought we could get away with,” West said.

The secret to organizational inspiration is to build information networks that allow hunches to persist and disperse and recombine. Instead of cloistering your hunches in brainstorm sessions or R&D labs, create an environment where brainstorming is something that is constantly running in the background, throughout the organization, a collective