business
“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes
“the job of a leader is to absorb complexity and pass down clarity
“ One of the biggest inflection points in growth for Airtable was adding templates. It kicked off the SEO flywheel and ended up accounting for as much as a third of total site traffic at its peak. One of the most interesting elements of this was that templates were seeded with a lot of the content made by creators in the community. This is generall... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Startups Like Figma, Facebook, and Airbnb Found Sudden Growth Inflections
One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe you’l... See more
Bx.comSlootman would start board meetings by detailing everything going wrong or likely to go wrong , rather than patting himself on the back
ChatGPT
“What do we need right now to move the needle tomorrow ?” The lofty vision was overtaking what we needed in the present.
Kareem Amin • Clay’s Path to Product-Market Fit — A 7-Year 'Overnight Success'
“Being a CEO is a highly confrontational role... Confrontation is about confronting issues and situations that are either not good enough or could be better,”
ChatGPT
Instead of asking "what tasks can we automate?" leaders should ask "what new capabilities can we unlock?"
decision making at amazon