“Being a CEO is a highly confrontational role... Confrontation is about confronting issues and situations that are either not good enough or could be better,”
the acceleration of things has made us miserable because our choices are no longer sufficiently limited that we feel we can accomplish everything we want. We’ve created an acceleration and an explosion of choice, which will permanently leave us feeling fundamentally unsatisfied or under-optimized
“Good performers crave a culture of energy... It’s using every encounter, meeting, and opportunity to increase the pace of whatever is going on. Apply pressure. Be impatient,”
What would’ve happened if you hadn’t given the brief to a load of engineering firms who immediately focused on speed, time, distance, capacity? What if you’d given the brief to Disney instead?