- For every meeting you accept, decline two.
- (A modification of Hanlon’s Razor) – Never attribute to malice that which can be chalked up to a lack of context or forethought.
- Meetings should always be demarcated in units of 15 minutes, up to a multiple of six, for no meeting should exceed 90 minutes.
- Corollary: The length of a meeting should be inversely proportional to the number of attendees.
- You learn more about a person from a resume or a test than an interview, though all remain critical.
- You choose to be ruled by either your inbox or your to-do list.
- If you don’t respect your time, no one else will.
- You can generally outwait someone’s emotions during a conversation, but must address them before they harden.
- Most everyone who uses the word empathy nowadays really means sympathy.
- Most everyone spends most of the time thinking about their own affairs – nothing pertaining to you.
- Most everyone spends a lot of their life figuring out whether they need or want internal or external validation – some want both.
- It isn’t always about the money – but it usually is.
- Don’t impose your own traits on others.
- Meet people where they are at, not where you think they should be.
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