how to lead
You have to have optimism. You have to have energy. You have to create positive energy. - Jeff Bezos
the pressure of time was already Weighing on everyone one day John Hench stopped by to check the progress on the coaches and had an idea which he brought up to Walt why don't we just leave the leather straps off Walt the people are
never going to appreciate all the close-up detail Disney treated Hench to a tart little lecture you're being a poor
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In hiring, value intelligence highly. Like focus, intelligence yields increasing returns.
Like focus, intelligence has a convex output curve — the smartest people can be an order of magnitude more productive than others who are only somewhat less smart. The key in hiring is to value potential skill rather than currently existing skill — and
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Peter Thiel
intellectually honest and economically rational but that alone is not enough there are many companies that do the right thing when their backs are against the wall the anointed few are there because they have chosen to outthink their competition and allocate Capital over many years with discipline to reinforce their firm's competitive
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
The goal of the leader of a company is has keep the entire organisation committed to a common goal
Bob Fastenal
book it is written by Bob kierin who's the founder of fenol that book and the way Bob ran fenol all centers around this one idea that the leader of a company has to keep the entire organization committed to a common goal Costco's common goal is that we are going to commit to this everyday low
pricing strategy and they commit to it every single
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“Do not divide your attention. Focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort. At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost versus
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when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
“Cultures that care about the little things all the time are very hard to create.” And according to Jeff Bezos “Almost impossible to create if not put in place at the firms genesis”
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