Abstract: how to fight fights you can win, plus the big whammy from chapter 3: To know yourself and your enemy is to never fear 1,000 battles. To know yourself but not your enemy, is to win and lose in equal measure. To know neither yourself nor your enemy, is to be in peril in every battle.
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A personal account of things that helped me find humility.
Abstract: We all suffer from a sense of entitlement to some degree or another, but sometimes, one’s sense of entitlement goes so far as to flatten the personality. If you engage in 3 or more of the 5 behaviors highlighted here, you may be on your way to becoming a caricature.
Abstract: Why/how to “trade in” your ego; the defense Conrad Black *should* have used.
The power of the ego amazes me: the same person who jumps at the chance to hire a golf coach to take his game from an 80 to scratch will tell me that business coaches are a waste of time. What the person is really saying is that, “I am afraid of what you might say because my ego does has not yet accepted that I have limits in the business world.”
Abstract: Event at the highest levels, leaders have responsibility without authority. “To suggest that a leader ever controls the environment would be like suggesting the skier ever controls the mountain.”
Abstract: Where and how financial models fail us, and how to correct for the problem.
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