Thought provoking
Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Q: How do you drive change in company meetings?
Legendary VC @bgurley dropped this on a @tferriss podcast, talking about how Shopify's @tobi makes decisions:
"Whenever we're dealing with a problem and we call a meeting to talk about the problem, I always start with this structure: 'We... See more
George from 🕹prodmgmt.worldx.comI’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Charlie Munger did life right.
Here are the 10 best Mungerisms from the architect of Berkshire of Hathaway. https://t.co/tiypxA0BNr
For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Commencement Address, American University in Beirut
One issue with corporate comms is there’s too much “how to build a boat” and not enough “why you should should yearn for the vast and endless sea”