Management & Leadership
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Management & Leadership
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
It 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”
How we manage
How we manage At our company, we strive to make every team member the best version of themselves. This is a very difficult thing to do, and so it's helpful to articulate how exactly we do it. Managing a person or a team is a very unnatural job. As an individual, your performance is typically mea...
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
Patrick Lencioni • 4 highlights
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The creative power of misfits
ted.comEstablish a shared foundation
Before you introduce a new room to the team’s architectural diagrams, you must make sure everyone had the same original plan in mind. It would not do for you to suggest let us add another floor but in your head, the original plan was a 2-story house and in your colleague’s mind, it was a... See more
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Burned-out, stressed-out, and frazzled leaders foster organizations that experience high turnover, low employee engagement, steep healthcare costs, and dysfunctional teams that often work against one another. The current models of leadership require organizations to motivate their people largely with fear and extrinsic rewards. Though no one argues... See more