Alex
@ajsomma
Alex
Q: How do you drive change in company meetings?
Legendary VC @bgurley dropped this on a @tferriss podcast, talking about how Shopify's @tobi makes decisions:
"Whenever we're dealing with a problem and we call a meeting to talk about the problem, I always start with this structure: 'We... See more
George from đź•ąprodmgmt.worldx.com
A structured meeting wrap-up process for extracting takeaways, recognizing contributions, and securing personal commitments from leaders.
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I ask everyone, what's your single biggest takeaway from today? What is something that 10 hours ago you didn't understand about how we're going to make money and how we're going to serve customers better and how we're going to improve employee engagement and how we're going to kill the competition. What is something you didn't know? What is
... See morebe a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
bluex.comYes, certain leaders amplify intelligence. These leaders, whom we have come to call Multipliers, create collective, viral intelligence in organizations. Other leaders act as Diminishers and deplete the organization of crucial intelligence and capability.
Liz Wiseman • Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:
“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”
One issue with corporate comms is there’s too much “how to build a boat” and not enough “why you should should yearn for the vast and endless sea”
Lulu Cheng Meservey • Tweet
For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If... See more