Quotes About Behavior

You don't create a culture. It happens. This is why new companies don't have a culture. Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.

What we do repeatedly hardens into habits. The longer you carry on, the tougher it is to change. All your best intentions about doing the right thing "later" are no match for the power of habits.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior.

It's common in the software industry to blame the users. It's the user's fault. They don't know how to use it. They're using it wrong. They need to do this or do that. But the reality is that specific designs encourage specific behaviors. If the design leads to stress, it's a bad design.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating customers right becomes your culture.

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.

Despite being programmed for etiquette and protocol, C-3PO had a singularly awful sense of diplomacy.

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Leonard Denton had a squeaky clean rep in the department, squeaky to the point where people almost assumed he would flip out one day and go postal. He was efficient and by the book, admirable qualities. But being admired and having admirable qualities were two totally different animals.

Accompanying this external style of functioning may be a propensity to be guided rather by strict rules, regulations and social conformity which provide existential anchoring via their predictable codes of behaviour, rather than by feelings which for the alexithymic individual provide no such security.

Then there were the general moral duties: not to commit adultery or fornication, not to stay out late at night after 8 p.m. frequenting inns and brothels, and not to play cards except during the Twelve Days of Christmas.

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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one's identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm

Emotional math is really a subset of a larger dynamic. When something goes wrong and I am part of it, I will tend to attribute my actions to the situation; you will tend to attribute my actions to my character.

While we all need to feel accepted as we are, we also need to hear feedback—particularly when our behavior is affecting others. Being accepted isn't an escape hatch from responsibility for consequences, as we discuss in more detail in chapter 10. So, seek acceptance. And work to make amends with the kids and with the funders (and with the car).

impact. Feedback-seeking behavior—as it's called in the research literature—has been linked to higher job satisfaction, greater creativity on the job, faster adaptation in a new organization or role, and lower turnover. And seeking out negative feedback is associated with higher performance ratings.

They're irrational.

Our past experiences often develop into "rules" by which we live our lives. Whether we are aware of them or not, we all follow such rules. They tell us how the world works, how people should act, or how things are supposed to be. And they have a significant influence on the story we tell about what is happening between us in a difficult conversation.

People align their actions with implicit incentives, not official rhetoric.

I was surprised that you made that comment. It seemed uncharacteristic of you. . . .

If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.

The third possible explanation for the sex difference in actual homicides is linked to a surprising motive for much violent behavior: the tendency to act aggressively to impress others.

No podemos aceptar el crédito por las cosas buenas y generosas que hacemos mientras estamos bajo la influencia de «la obsesión». Nos empuja y nos lleva una fuerza instintiva que va más allá de nuestros patrones de comportamiento normal. No obstante, si una vez que volvemos al mundo real de la decisión humana, optamos por ser amables y generosos, eso es amor verdadero.

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe