Chris Parry
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Chris Parry
Everything has its season,
all exists in oscillation.
Team Traits
Note the arrowhead in figure 4.1 — it consists of strategy, leadership and culture. These three elements influence the direction in which an enterprise moves: towards enduring relevance or towards decline.
When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.
from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
When giving or receiving advice, focus on the general, not the specific.
This is exactly how I navigate the perils of advice in my own writing: I try to provide the general principles, ideas, frameworks, and questions that you can take, mold, and leverage in your own way.
"I am not a fool, but I respect your sincerity in asking my advice. I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific a
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... See more“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”