Quotes About Progress

Teach the growth mindset. Every success is going to involve rough patches.

achieving success requires some failures along the way. Don't beat yourself up when those failures occur.

The project often feels like a failure in the middle. But if the team persists through this valley of angst and doubt, it eventually emerges with a growing sense of momentum. Team members begin to test out their new designs, and they realize the improvements they've made, and they keep tweaking the design to make it better. And they come to realize, we've cracked this problem. That's when the team reaches the peak of confidence.

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Calendar time is easier to feel than number counts.

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to marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

the common perception that time seems to accelerate as we get older. Our lives become more routine and less novel. We're seeing more and more brown shoes and fewer alarm clocks. Now

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

The Heart of Change, by John Kotter and Dan Cohen [Business and organizational change].

One Small Step Can Change Your Life, by Robert Maurer [Individual and organizational change]. If you liked the chapter on shrinking the change, this is your book. Maurer shows how small steps can lead to great change.

Not every meeting needs to be a "defining moment." But once every 5 to 10 meetings, find a way to break the script.

Our Rider has a problem focus when he needs a solution focus. If you are a manager, ask yourself: "What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

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new habits can clear the Path.

people will persevere only if they perceive falling down as learning rather than as failing.

time periods, and outcome variables Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is impossible to find any domain in which humans clearly outperformed crude extrapolation algorithms.

to make changes stick, we've got to think about shaping the Path.

Best of all, bright spots solve the "Not Invented Here" problem.

Once people are on the path and making progress, it's important to make their advances visible.

Don Berwick, with his 75-person team at IHI, had convinced thousands of hospitals to change

By using the miracle scale, you always have a clear idea of where you're going next, and you have a clear sense of what the next small victory will be. You're moving forward, and, even better, you're getting more confident in your ability to keep moving forward.

Big problem, small solution.

What's working, and how can we do more of it?