Liz Wiseman Quotes

#1. Rookie smarts isn't an age or an experience level; it is state of mind - one that is available to those willing to unlearn and relearn. It is also a choice. As

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#2. (She grabbed him for a bear hug.)
Stop sexually harassing me, Mom. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. [His faith] was a hundred small perfect steps that in the end can never add up to dance ... not the kind I wanted, anyway. Not the tango of Argentina, of the Spanish birthday party.

Addie Zierman

#4. If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

P.K. Page

#5. Those willing to leave the comfort zone of their expertise have the opportunity to climb a learning curve, forge new ground, and reap the promise of growth. As

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#6. Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Joseph Hall

#7. We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

#8. I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Irwin Shaw

#9. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.

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#10. In the most trying times, you would trust your people; you would extend hard challenges to them and allow them space to fulfill their responsibilities. You would access their intelligence in a way that would actually make them smarter.

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#11. New discoveries are not made by staying at home. New territories are not found by taking the freeway. To make new discoveries, we have to leave the well-worn paths. We

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#12. They started developing leaders who could multiply the intelligence and capability of the people around them and increase the brainpower of the organization to meet their growth demands.

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#13. A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.

Mowaffak Al-Rubaie

#14. Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change.

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#15. Laying down a challenge means more than directing people to do it. It includes asking the hard questions that no one yet has the answers to and then backing off so that the people within the organization have the space to think through the questions, take ownership, and find the answers.

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#16. It is while striving that we feel joyful and most alive. Stanley

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#17. Most people in organizations are underutilized. 2. All capability can be leveraged with the right kind of leadership. 3. Therefore, intelligence and capability can be multiplied without requiring a bigger investment.

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#18. The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#19. Perhaps these leaders understood that the person sitting at the apex of the intelligence hierarchy is the genius maker, not the genius.

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#20. In times of tumult and transition the best leaders know when it is time to stop, unlearn, and relearn.

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#21. As we become accustomed to the trappings of success, we begin to defend our position and protect our stance. Resource

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#22. As Epictetus said centuries ago, "It is impossible to begin to learn what one thinks one already knows." This

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#23. What we know might actually mask what we don't know and impede our ability to learn and perform. All

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#24. Experience is not the enemy: It is the hubris that is often a by-product of experience that is our greatest enemy.

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#25. amazing things can happen when we admit that we don't know.

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#26. As a manager you know when someone is below his or her usual performance. What is harder to know is whether people are giving everything they have to give. Asking whether people are giving their best gives them the opportunity to push themselves beyond their previous limits.

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#27. The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.

Adam Ferrara

#28. Nature has always something rare to show us ... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

John Muir