Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning. Having open-minded conversations with believabl… - Ray Dalio

no manager at any level can expect to succeed without the skill set of an organizational engineer.

You only have so much time and energy; make sure you are investing them in exploring the problems that, if fixed, will yield you the biggest returns. But at the same time, make sure you spend enough time with the small problems to make sure they're not symptoms of larger ones.

While I used to get angry and frustrated at people because of the choices they made, I came to realize that they weren’t intentionally acting in a way that seemed counterproductive; they were just living out things as they saw them, based on how their brains worked.