759Borrowed Strength
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760Albert Einstein observed, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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761We will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.
Knowledge-What to do
Skill-How to do it
Desire-What to do
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762On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you.
Independence is the paradigm of I
Interdependence is the paradigm of We
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763How do you shape up lazy and incompetent employees
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764In the last analysis, as Maralyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.
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765As we previously observed, proactivity is based on the unique human endowment of self-awareness. The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.
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766Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Goethe.
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767We accomplish all that we do through delegation, either to time or to other people.
If we delegate to time, we think efficiency
If we delegate to other people, we think effectiveness.
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768There are basically two types of delegation--Gofer delegation and stewardship delegation.
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769The principles involved in stewardship delegation are correct and applicable to any kind of person or situation. With immature people, you specify fewer desired results and more guidelines, identify more resources, conduct more frequent accountability interviews, and apply more immediate consequences. With more mature people, you have more challenging desired results, fewer guidelines, less frequent accountability, and less measurable but more discernable(?) interviews.
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770Ethos-Personal Credibility/character
Pathos-Feeling
Logos-Logic
Cf Sinek Golden Circle
