Business Building

It all starts with your Vision. The Vision must be regarded as the central aim that enrolls the support of all your team members. It inspires them to do the things they have to do to meet their own individual goals.

it’s critical that your entire team identifies with the Vision Statement and accepts it as the team’s vision too. Whenever I recruit new team members, the very first thing I discuss with them is our vision. I let them know what we are striving for. If they can’t identify with it, I tell them they’re welcome to leave then and there.

There will be a small group of “What” and “How” questions that you will find yourself using in nearly every situation. Here are a few of them: What are we trying to accomplish? How is that worthwhile? What’s the core issue here? How does that affect things? What’s the biggest challenge you face? How does this fit into what the objective is?

Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“What’s working, and how can we do more of it?” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: “What’s broken, and how do we fix it?” - via Chip and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard