Emotional control Quote by Richard Guare

“Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Focus is one of the main pillars of self-discipline; a person who lacks the ability to focus is almost certainly one who will also…

— Peter Hollins

Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often we find…

— Justin Menkes

Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully, this insight…

— Justin Menkes

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

— Earl Nightingale

“Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while performing the…

— Daniel Kahneman

“I have never encountered an executive who remains effective while tackling more than two tasks at a time. Hence, after asking what needs to…

— Harvard Business Review

“The testers found that training attention not only improved executive control; scores on nonverbal tests of intelligence also improved and the improvement was maintained…

— Daniel Kahneman

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

— Bill Parcells

“Executive dysfunction isn’t distraction. It’s your brain’s defense mechanism kicking in to protect itself from overwhelm.”

— Felecia Etienne

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that…

— John C. Maxwell