Briggs Uhler

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Sol had a saying: “You train an animal, you teach a person.” He wanted people who could assess situations and make the right call, not robots following scripts. Jim Sinegal took this to heart – he spent 90% of his time teaching, not managing. Manuals create followers. Teaching creates thinkers.

Robert E. Price (source book author) • [Outliers] Sol Price: The Godfather of Costco, Walmart, and Modern Retail

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Paying the minimum gets you minimum effort.

Robert E. Price (source book author) • [Outliers] Sol Price: The Godfather of Costco, Walmart, and Modern Retail

Entrepreneurship and

Pay your employees more and you’ll get more effort

Think Like a Fiduciary, Not a Merchant : When Safeway sold sugar below cost, Sol did something insane. He put up signs in FedMart: “ Sugar is cheaper at Safeway this week. Go buy it there.” His managers thought he’d lost it. Sol’s view? “I have a fiduciary duty to my members, like a lawyer to clients.” That radical honesty created something powerf

Robert E. Price (source book author) • [Outliers] Sol Price: The Godfather of Costco, Walmart, and Modern Retail

Entrepreneurship and

Trust is key in any relationship, including a supplier/merchant to customer one

Most businesses fear any lost sale. The best businesses choose which sales to lose.

Robert E. Price (source book author) • [Outliers] Sol Price: The Godfather of Costco, Walmart, and Modern Retail

Entrepreneurship and

Feel free to fire customers, but also to deliberately not get particular customers in the first place

I may not be what I thought I was. This world itself may just be a maze without a center. But I will not wait to die. I will not wait to be bridled by another. I will go forward as I see fit.

-thoughts of Lysander au Lune

Entrepreneurship and

my bold; from Pierce Brown’s Dark Age, pg. 335

… anyone interesting is at war with themselves, and can thus be described in just two words.

-Diomedes au Raa

Thought poking and Simple happiness

from Pierce Brown’s Dark Age, pg. 19

There's a Place for Everyone

Adam Mastroianni experimental-history.com

Thought poking and Simple happiness

Use your thinky bits to find your niche—it’s out there

When people fail to find their niche, and when we fail to helpthem find it, we don’t just suffer from their absence. We also suffer from their presence in the wrong place.

Adam Mastroianni • There's a Place for Everyone

Thought poking and Simple happiness

Unpacking is easy and free, but almost no one ever does it because it feels weird and unnatural. It’s uncomfortable to confront your own illusion of explanatory depth, to admit that you really have no idea what’s going on, and to keep asking stupid questions until that changes.

Adam Mastroianni • Face It: You're a Crazy Person

Entrepreneurship and

Ask those questions!