Constantly Probe The People Who Report To

When You're Centered, Your Emotions Are Not Hijacking You.

Over Time, It Also Became Important For Me To Share My Management Principles With The People I Worked With Because We Had To Agree On How We Should Be With Each Other - And That Way Is Unique. Because The Logic Behind Being Radically Honest And Radically Transparent With Each Other Wasn't Clear, It Had To Be Spelled Out In These Principles.

I Think The Greatest Tragedy Of Mankind Is That People Have Ideas And Opinions In Their Heads But Don't Have A Process For Properly Examining These Ideas To Find Out What's True. That Creates A World Of Distortions.

People With Good Work Habits Have To-do Lists That Are Reasonably Prioritized, And They Make Themselves Do What Needs To Be Done. By Contrast, People With Poor Work Habits Almost Randomly React To The Stuff That Comes At Them, Or They Can't Bring Themselves To Do The Things They Need To Do But Don't Like To Do (or Are Unable To Do).

As Harvard Developmental Psychologist Robert Kegan, Who Has Studied Bridgewater, Says, In Most Work Places Everyone Is Working Two Jobs. The First Is Whatever Their Actual Job Is; The Second Consists Of Managing Others' Impressions Of Them, Especially By Hiding Weaknesses And Inadequacies - Which Is An Enormous Waste Of Energy.