leadership
Rick Rubin on turning Metallica around
It’s always better to think and work backwards from great than it is to work forward from good
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Howard Schultz • 9 highlights
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“Great leadership has many different attributes, but it starts with knowledge of a particular pursuit, because without the knowledge and mastery of that particular pursuit, I don’t think you have the authority to convey it with conviction to others. It usually is associated with an obsession, because to be a great leader, you have to be obsessed by
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John Gardner via John Maeda who shares this article every new year's day, and I always re-read it.
As the former CEO of both Data Domain and ServiceNow, two successful tech companies in recent years, I am often confronted with questions: what did you guys do? What is the secret sauce? How did you do it? We never thought of ourselves as that different. We certainly didn’t think we had stumbled on a silver bullet. Did we just get incredibly lucky... See more
