Quote by Chip Heath Download Open image ““try the Vanishing Options Test: Ask them what they’d do if their current alternatives disappeared.”” — Chip Heath ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The key is to reframe your idea of options by realizing that if you have too many options, you actually have none at all.… — Bill Burnett Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that there aren’t… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
“Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Option A is not available. so let's just kick the shit out of Option B." Life is never perfect. We all live some form… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“When you're out of options, the best option is to do nothing. Play dead. The possum option.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“wonder how many really good ideas are killed in the testing phase because they are being scrutinized so closely, whereas, if the problem appeared… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
“You may start switching from one method to another, one idea to another, and yet achieve nothing significant.” — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
“It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums … come to believe their own press.” — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Regrets of the Dying.” She shared the five most common regrets of the people she had come to know: 1. I wish I’d had the… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Peter Bregman, a productivity guru and blogger for the Harvard Business Review, recommends a simple trick for dodging this fate. He advises us to… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Compromise is like the old joke, “A camel is a horse made by a committee.” — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there. — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Research tells us that brainstorming becomes more productive when it’s focused. As jazz great Charles Mingus famously said, “You can’t improvise on nothing, man;… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“To make good decisions, CEOs need the courage to seek out disagreement. Alfred Sloan, the longtime CEO and chairman of General Motors, once interrupted… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“One rule of thumb is to keep searching for options until you fall in love at least twice. If you’ve only identified one good… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Seeking a compelling example of the company’s poor purchasing habits, Stegner assigned a summer student intern to investigate a single item—work gloves, which workers… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Unexpected ideas are more likely to stick because surprise makes us pay attention and think.” — Chip Heath Copy Share Image