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So trying to screen for "good people" or screen out "bad people" doesn't necessarily get you a high-integrity culture. A person may come in with high integrity but have to compromise it to succeed in your environment.
Just as Africans in Saint-Domingue became the products of slave culture and then transformed into elite soldiers under Toussaint Louverture, people become the culture they live in and do what they have to do to survive and thrive.
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
Even safe or bland comments are not risk-free. In the absence of data, people will make stuff up. Everybody draws conclusions when interacting with others. The less we reveal, the more others will fill in the blanks in order to make sense of what they see. When we are too reserved with our feelings, we actually lose control over how we are seen.
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David Bradford and Carole Robin
Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to-day.
Wit and Wisdom From Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin
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