Melanie Levitin
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Melanie Levitin
- Rise of the Generalist Sources
- “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World,” David Epstein, 2019.
- “The Skillful Corporation,” McKinsey Quarterly, Five Fifty, 2018.
- “The Fastest Path to the CEO Job, According to a 10-Year Study,” Elena Lytkina Botelho, Kim Rosenkoetter Powell, and Nicole Wong, Harvard Business Review, January 31, 2018.
- “Harv
from Rise of the Generalist | 2023 Global Culture Report | O.C. Tanner
Books & articles about the value of generalists
- “When someone is in your heart, in your bed, you share intimacy, you want to keep them as friends,” she said. “Sometimes it takes work, especially if you left them.”
from Diane von Furstenberg Has No Regrets: ‘I Will Laugh When I Die’
- I'm really inspired by also how they were really quiet for a really long time at the beginning. They were not trying to become the next new success story on the pages of every paper. They were much more just like, "We're just going to prove through the quality of our output over time that we are doing something interesting, and weird, and different... See more
from Camille Ricketts: Former Head of Marketing at Notion
On A24s succes
- [9:32] ...people that were very creative and very effective in their lives always started their day with something that they were looking forward to, even something tiny. [9:53] ...having something that doesn't necessarily need to go in your calendar but can go in your mind for what you want to do the next morning will make you enjoy your day a lot... See more
from How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula by Elizabeth Filips
- Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.
from Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.
from Brave Enough by cheryl strayed
- We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any per... See more
from Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. by Tara Brach
- Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator...
And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”
Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how we look in our suit or whether the water is cold. ... See morefrom Seth's Blog : Generosity and fear
- There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different. I have never seen anyone take a risk for growth that was not rewarded a thousand times over.
from A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings by Maria Popova