Excerpts

Excerpts

It’s Always an Empty Boat

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts–Becoming the Person You Want to Be (Kindle Locations 2169-2173). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. It’s Always an Empty Boat The Buddhist wisdom is contained in the Parable of the Empty

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Mindset – For Teachers and Parents

Dweck, Carol. Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential. Robinson, 2017 (pp. 177-204) – highlights and notes Mindset and School Achievement The transition to junior high is a time of great challenge for many

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Inside the Mindsets

Dweck, Carol. Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential, Robinson, 2017 (pp. 16-54) Inside the Mindsets When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world—the world of fixed traits—success is

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The Way of Integrity

Notes and highlights for Beck, Martha. The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self . Little, Brown Book Group. The word integrity has taken on a slightly prim, judgmental nuance in modern English, but the word comes

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Hesselbein: A Reason to Believe

Frances Hesselbein, Hesselbein on Leadership (pp 13-17.). Jossey-Bass, 2002 CHAPTER 2 A Reason to Believe I SPOKE RECENTLY to an audience of university students, faculty, and community leaders. We had a vigorous question and answer period, and when people came

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Petty Tyrants and Psychopaths

Klaas, Brian. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us (p. 108). John Murray Press. Kindle Edition. Why overconfidence and arrogance are common traits in powerful people? Machiavellianism comes from the reductive caricature of a single idea from Italian

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Business: Mindset and Leadership

Notes and highlights for Carol Dweck. Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential (Kindle Locations 1816-1817). Hachette UK. Kindle Edition. Chapter 5. BUSINESS: MINDSET AND LEADERSHIP CEO Disease CEOs face this choice all the

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Listening

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Kindle Locations 2552-3928). Hyperion. Kindle Edition. CHAPTER 9  Listening JACK NICKLAUS SAID THAT 80 percent of a successful golf shot begins

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Don’t Be a Mediator

Diviney, Rich. The Attributes, Ebury Edge 2021, pp. 189-196 Chapter 21 DON’T BE A MEDIATOR Accountability: Taking responsibility for, and ownership of, your decisions, actions, and the consequences thereof NAVY SEAL TEAMS, LIKE any military outfit, have both officers and

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