Highlights & Annotations
When they see others gain power, information, money, or recognition, for instance, they experience what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called “a feeling of deficiency” – a sense that something is being taken away from them. p96
- Learn to develop a mentality of abundance instead of scarcity
- Principle-based value system
- There’s enough ‘success’ for everyone
- And usually, the success of another is not exactly the type of success you want anyways – you’re too focused on the success itself
Management time: Who’s got the monkey? –William Oncken, Donald Wass
- Specify level of initiative p88
- Wait until told what to do
- Ask what to do
- Recommend an action, then with your approval, execute it
- Take independent action, but advise you at once
- Take independent action and update you at an agreed upon time
- Outlaw the use of 1 or 2