If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.