Management & Leadership
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Management & 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)
Being a great manager is easy.
All you have to do is be vulnerable but unflappable, care about people but put the business first, balance competing interests of your team and your boss, obsess over numbers but be a great storyteller, empower your team but give clear direction…
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Jim Dethmeramazon.comCompeting Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton M. Christensen • 3 highlights
amazon.com
If someone matters to you, make sure they know it. And there is no better way to let them know they matter than with some sincere and unexpected gratitude.
Don’t wait for a scheduled review. Call them now. Tell them that they are amazing. Tell them you see them and that you value them. If you think they already know and you don’t need to tell them,... See more
Don’t wait for a scheduled review. Call them now. Tell them that they are amazing. Tell them you see them and that you value them. If you think they already know and you don’t need to tell them,... See more
Ravi Gupta • Flowers & Leadership | RKG
Leading from good to great does not mean coming up with the answers and then motivating everyone to follow your messianic vision. It means having the humility to grasp the fact that you do not yet understand enough to have the answers and then to ask the questions that will lead to the best possible insights.
Jim Collins • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
founders
classic framework for thinking about managing change