Management & Leadership
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Management & Leadership
Steve Jobs: Asking for help is a superpower
“I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
I called up Bill Hewlett (founder of HP) when I was 12 years old.
He answered the phone himself.
I told him... See more
Most people suck at giving feedback.
Here’s a framework for feedback that creates behavior change:
Wes Kaotwitter.comas a leader, how do you decide whether to optimize or innovate?
not that you can’t do both at the same time — it’s really a matter of degree. but it’s an important matter of degree.
I spoke to an ex Shopify employee today. He told me about what employees call a “Toby Tornado”. It made me appreciate Toby Lutke (CEO) even more.
It goes like this: Toby follows random Slack channels across the company. He would sometimes drop a message in one of them and tell everyone that the project they’re... See more
Itai Damtix.comIt seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solitary, even intensely lonely one. However many people you may consult, you are the one who has to make the hard decisions. And at such moments, all you really have is yourself.
William Deresiewicz • “Solitude and Leadership”
What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you?
Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs:
1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed.
2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like... See more
Shane Parrishx.comWhat can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you? Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs: 1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed. 2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else. 3. Complexity hides opportunity. 4. Focus on return on capital and return on time. 5. Your job is to multiply shareholder wealth. 6. Problems are assets, not liabilities. 7. Anyone can buy a company; integration creates (or destroys) value. 8. Companies don’t go bankrupt from bad ideas. They go bankrupt from too much debt. 9. Speed without quality is reckless. Quality without speed is irrelevant. 10. Rigid plans miss opportunities; improvisation captures them. 11. Being liked and being contrarian aren’t opposites; you need both. 12. So much of business success comes from keeping your head in a good place. 13. Look for people motivated by money. This is capitalism, not a charity. (Must have integrity.) 14. The most powerful thing in any relationship is giving someone 100% of your attention. 15. Standardization enables scale. 16. Ask the top employees what they’d change; they know reality. 17. Survey employees constantly. They know where the opportunities hide. 18. Reward people for helping others win, not just for winning alone. 19. People need to feel understood before they’ll accept change. 20. You can’t fake appreciation. Rearrange your brain to see the real good in people. 21. Ask what shouldn’t change. The good stuff tells you as much as the problems. 22. How you end a meeting matters more than how you start it. 23. Feelings count in business. You want the love vibe, not the hate vibe. 24. Musicians make better CEOs than MBAs because they know how to improvise. 25. Technology is an accelerant, not a strategy. (Brad Jacobs on The Knowledge Project)
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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A great quote from Ross Perot:
"I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is -- nothing. You... See more