May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 21m
English
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Side Glance: Humility and Hubris |
How is it that someone becomes wise all of a sudden when Caesar appoints him to take care of his chamber pot?
—Epictetus, Discourses
I have so many ideas that may perhaps be of some use in time if others more penetrating than I go deeply into them someday and join the beauty of their minds to the labour of mine.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Letters
I have realized that as a manager, I’ve learned a set of behaviors that resists innovation. What does a manager do when an employee comes with a new idea? I know what I do. I say things like, “Well . . . have you thought of this? Have you thought of that? Did you talk to Gerald about it? How do you know it’ll work?”
I talk like that because my superior experience ...