Leadership

Most guys will live and die without ever doing anything truly remarkable. They'll work jobs they tolerate, take vacations to places everyone's been, and fill their free time with Netflix and social media.

Look at the lives of men who defined what it means to be truly interesting:

Roosevelt hunted big game in Africa, survived being shot during a speec

As the complexity of civilisation, the destructive scale of technology and crises, and the speed of crises all increase, there is no greater multi-trillion dollar bill lying on the street than this problem: how to get the most able people — who don’t provide 50% more value than average leaders but many orders of magnitude — into the highest leverag

Cummings also continuously talks about decision making – it is government’s job after all. Most of all, his point of focus is on the level of people in decision-making positions within Government who have never had to make decisions before in their life, have never started and succeeded at a project of their own, and never led anyone, himself inclu

“You’ve studied being head of a country for fifty years,” JFK said to him. “Have you found out anything I should know?” De Gaulle advised him to hear the advice of others but to decide matters for himself and live by his own counsel.