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  1. Personal awareness is observing your own actions. Team awareness is observing the actions of people you work with.
  2. cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable tension that results from simultaneously considering two conflicting thoughts.
  3. If we understand our biases, we are in a better position to appropriately compensate for them.
  4. One of the most dangerous tendencies that we all have is the proclivity to see ONLY what we want to see.
  5. Degrees of Listening: Ignoring, Pretend listening (patronizing), Selective listening, Attentive listening, Empathic listening #The8thHabit
  6. Ask not what your team can do for you; ask what you can do for your team.
  7. When people commit themselves to a team, they pledge their time, attention, and energy to help the team achieve its goals. #jazzprocess
  8. “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius
  9. Spreading the word about the efforts and results of individuals helps to build trust and respect for those people. #jazzprocess
  10. A Sense of Ownership bit.ly/LjnlCF
  11. When building a team, aim for the quality of people, not quantity. #jazzprocess
  12. A important skill of effective people is their ability to allocate a sizable portion of their personal bandwidth to collaboration
  13. A hundred mediocre people may never be able to match the achievements of one genius, no matter how much time they have. #jazzprocess
  14. Individuality is about more than self-expression and creativity. It’s also about the confidence to play a unique part without any backup.
  15. Processes that depend on critical skills may need revision when those skills are no longer available. #jazzprocess
  16. Rules maintained simply for tradition’s sake may deny a team the freedom to evolve and adapt. #jazzprocess
  17. Lean Startup author Eric Ries is the new guru of Silicon Valley. I'm reading about him on the WIRED app: wrdm.ag/JElatI
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