* LEADERSHIP & INFLUENCE
Quotes about leading mission-driven organizations, creating sustainable change, and navigating the unique challenges of the sector.
* LEADERSHIP & INFLUENCE
“The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition.” —Peter Senge
A Vision for Housing: We keep doing what we do best, but we seek to increase housing supply by building at discount via in-kind donations, and renting it at-cost to the teens who helped build it. We want to push back on the idea that the solution to high housing costs is getting people higher paying jobs. This helps but a far better and more sustai
... See more/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compo
So the obvious effect of expensive housing is that people often spend a lot of their money on renting or buying their home, leaving them with less money to spend on other things, especially if they live in and around the Western world’s most wealthy cities. And the problem is getting worse.
John Myers • The Housing Theory of Everything
People generally believe - and want to believe - whatever supports their worldview.
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As we increase the benefits we offer our after-school students, we will need to become increasingly selective and have more strict standards. This doesn’t mean we serve easier kids or kids that are able to mount higher barriers, but rather we find some way of finding students with two key traits: 1) extraordinary need and 2) capacity for growth.
Sherlock Holmes put it: “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
Morgan Housel • How People Think
