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A lot of people think they don’t have to take care of their health. They get too little sleep. They drink too much. They eat incredible amounts of processed food. They get little to no exercise. While they know health is important, at some level they think they are the exception. Acceptance is knowing you must care for your health because it is the foundation for everything else. Without health, everything else multiplies by zero.
Joseph Tussman: Getting the World to Do the Work for You
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None of DecisionTech's 150 employees were shocked by Jeff's removal. While most of them seemed to like him well enough personally, they couldn't deny that under his leadership the atmosphere within the company had become increasingly troubling. Backstabbing among the executives had become an art. There was no sense of unity or camaraderie on the team, which translated into a muted level of commitment. Everything seemed to take too long to get done, and even then it never felt right.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick M. Lencioni
JEFF BEWKES: Ghostbusters took the income of HBO, which at the time was somewhere between $110 million to $130 million, and practically wiped it out, because it was such a huge percent of the box office. We ended up inventing a new accounting treatment for film expense, which was called the first window and the second window. That accounting change saved tens of millions to our balance sheet.
Tinderbox
James Andrew Miller
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