Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
The best reason to not cut corners:
If you didn't get the response you were hoping for, how can you know if it was because your idea was bad vs. you cut corners?
Julie Zhuox.comWhen you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the... See more
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
I’ve always been a freak for the zealous pursuit of the better, especially where culture is concerned. I love the story of it, and also the motive. So that, too, is what this book is—a celebration of the art that happens when instinct meets rigor.
Adam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
An underrated way to succeed at anything is simply to be ten times better.
Everyone wants to have a unique idea or be a monopoly but you can just be ten times better instead. In a lot of areas, no one is really trying. The world is coated with a film of inertia.
Simon Sarristwitter.com
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins • 7 highlights
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Fermat's Library | The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers annotated/explained version.
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