Management & Leadership
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Management & Leadership
One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure.
Howard Schultz • Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
According to Ken Chenault, the legendary former CEO of American Express and current chairman of venture firm General Catalyst, the job of a leader is to deliver on two sometimes conflicting mandates: creating hope, and defining reality.
A structured meeting wrap-up process for extracting takeaways, recognizing contributions, and securing personal commitments from leaders.
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I ask everyone, what's your single biggest takeaway from today? What is something that 10 hours ago you didn't understand about how we're going to make money and how we're going to serve customers better and how we're going to improve employee engagement and how we're going to kill the competition. What is something you didn't know? What is
... See moreTo make these grand missions a reality, Elon maintains a constant state of urgency by employing “surges”.
What is a surge? At least 2-3x a year, he sets an insane deadline which requires all-hands-on-deck and around-the-clock activity in order to meet a goal. This could be manufacturing a battery part for Tesla. Or stacking rocket stages onto the... See more
What is a surge? At least 2-3x a year, he sets an insane deadline which requires all-hands-on-deck and around-the-clock activity in order to meet a goal. This could be manufacturing a battery part for Tesla. Or stacking rocket stages onto the... See more
Trungphan2 • 6 thought on "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson
I'm consistently surprised by how the single act of doing this as an eng manager or product manager makes incredible waves:
Send an email explaining what your team did the past 1-2 weeks, what your plans are for the next period, blockers & lessons learned.
Every. Single. Time.
Gergely Orosztwitter.com
