Keith Rabois tells the story of Elon Musk observing interns waiting in line for coffee at SpaceX
Keith is asked how Elon Musk gets so much done, to which he replies:
“If you approach every day and every week of your life with the question, ‘What did you accomplish this week?’ I https://t.co/F0ktYj9RXG
Keith Rabois tells the story of Elon Musk observing interns waiting in line for coffee at SpaceX Keith is asked how Elon Musk gets so much done, to which he replies: “If you approach every day and every week of your life with the question, ‘What did you accomplish this week?’ I https://t.co/F0ktYj9RXG
“One is emphasizing that you have 80,000 working hours in the course of your life. It’s incredibly important to work out how best to spend them, and what you’re doing at the moment—20-year-old Will—is just kind of drifting and thinking. [You’re] not spending very much time thinking about this kind of macro optimization. You might be thinking about
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As Andy Grove said about goal assessment, the important thing is that “at the end, you can look without any argument and say, ‘Did I do that, or did I not do that?’ Yes. No. Simple.”
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
A lot of people might be surprised by how empty my calendar is. Many CEOs seem to believe they have to wear themselves out working 9 to 9 — they torture themselves, basically — but I think you can run a large company in two to three hours a day.
Almost any CEO can get to that point, but it’s essential to have the right executive team, and it relies ... See more
Almost any CEO can get to that point, but it’s essential to have the right executive team, and it relies ... See more
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