#359 The Russian Rockefellers - Colossus
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#359 The Russian Rockefellers - Colossus
- Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anything, quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through. Rockefeller’s product – his deliverable – wasn’t what he did with this hands, or even his words. It was what he figured out inside his ... See more
from Lazy Work, Good Work
Here’s a problem we don’t think about enough: Even as more professions look like Rockefeller’s – thought jobs that require quiet time to think a problem through – we’re stuck in the old world where a good employee is expected to labor, visibly and without interruption.
- 1. StorytellingMany companies in their early beginnings rally people behind anything but the actual product.But Clay rallied people behind a story: David Rockefeller (third generation of the Rockefeller family) gathered over 100,000 index cards without ver 200,000 meticulously crafted notes of every person he had met throughout his life. The purpos... See more
from ⚫️ Clay by Ali Abouelatta
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