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"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."
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"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that."

"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."

"A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else."

"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."

"For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role."

"The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control."

"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."

"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."

"Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome."

"Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances."

"Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition."
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