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6. Deviance will always generate external pressures to conform. If you perform beyond the norms, the systems will adjust and try to make you normal. Robert Quinn, Deep Change

9. TH!NK differently

10. AWAKENING everything we’ve learned about weakness is wrong

11. Excellence is a form of deviance. The way to achieve and maintain excellence is to deviate from the norm. You become excellent because you are doing things that normal people do not want to do. Robert Quinn, Deep Change

12. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

17. Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not – because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued or was actually stigmatized. Sir Ken Robinson

19. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

20. AWARENESS

22. We are led to truth by our weaknesses as well as our strengths. PARKER PALMER, Let Your Life Speak

23. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

24. ACCEPTANCE weaknesses are strengths in disguise

27. Easy Going.... Irresponsible Adventurous.... Dangerous Spontaneous.... Impulsive

28. Structured.... Inflexible Responsible.... Controlling Cautious.... Fearful

31. strength AND weakness

34. Strong people always have strong weaknesses too. Where there are peaks, there are valleys. Peter Drucker

38. Striving for all-around excellence leads directly to mediocrity

39. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

40. APPRECIATION

41. Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. George Eliot

45. Strangely, I think my dyslexia has helped. Richard Branson

46. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

47. ACT differently

48. AMPLIFICATION

52. how could you AMPLIFY your weaknesses?

53. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

54. ALIGNMENT don’t try to fit in find the right fit

59. how could you FIND THE RIGHT FIT?

60. AVOIDANCE to be the best (at some things) we have to be the worst (at other things)

61. True differentiation is rarely a function of well-roundedness; it is typically a function of lopsidedness

63. Excellence requires underperforming on the things your customers value least, so you can over-deliver on the dimensions they value most.

69. Decide what trade-offs you will make – where you will do things badly, even very badly, in the service of great.

70. what should you STOP DOING?

71. AFFILIATION partner with people who are strong where you are weak

74. Organizations exist to make people’s strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. Peter Drucker

75. who is STRONG where you are WEAK?

77. Because of its inclination... the tower has been the object of very special attention.

78. It is important to keep the current tilt, due to the vital role that this element played in promoting the tourism industry of Pisa.

79. We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. e. e. cummings

80. What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong.

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