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“The three stages of career development are:
1. I want to be in the meeting
2. I want to run the meeting
3. I want to avoid meetings.”
1. I want to be in the meeting
2. I want to run the meeting
3. I want to avoid meetings.”
3-2-1 Thursday newsletter - James Clear • 3-2-1: Fans vs Critics, the Curse of Jealousy, and the Secret to Living a Full Life
“Never sacrifice momentum. I might know a better path, but if we’ve got a lot of momentum, if everyone’s united and they’re marching together and the path is O.K., just go with the flow. I may eventually nudge them down a new path, but never stop the troops mid march.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On acting with confidence, the different types of age, and the importance of momentum
When your primary goal is to be liked, you can’t take risks. You can’t disagree. You can’t push boundaries. You become a prisoner of other people’s expectations.
Different Resolutions
It turns out that reality has a surprising amount of detail, and those details can matter a lot to figuring out what the root problem or best solution is. So if I want to help, I can’t treat those details as a black box: I need to open it up and see the gears inside. Otherwise, anything I suggest will be wrong—or even if it’s right, I won’t have... See more
Ben Kuhn • To listen well, get curious
Smart people know an unsettling truth: loyalty must be given before it’s earned.
The best leaders I know extend trust and loyalty long before receiving it – they treat people as if they’ve already proven trustworthy. This seems naive until you realize it’s a forcing function: by acting as if people have already earned your trust, you create the... See more
The best leaders I know extend trust and loyalty long before receiving it – they treat people as if they’ve already proven trustworthy. This seems naive until you realize it’s a forcing function: by acting as if people have already earned your trust, you create the... See more
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Don’t assume a lack of discussion equals agreement.
Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
So if your career offers you the choice of being a starving saint or a wealthy sinner, consider being a middle-class mensch instead. You may not be helping the absolute neediest people, and you may not be able to afford a yacht, but there are lots of folks out there who would really like some help getting their visas renewed, and they’d be very... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II
“You hear in business meetings that if you can’t measure it, you cannot improve it. These kinds of statements are taken as truths. And over time, I realized [that] used in the wrong context, they tend to cause a lot of damage that we don’t even realize because we feel like we are being smart when we say, “This thing must be measured before we can... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
