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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
TAKING THE MYSTERY OUT OF SCALING A COMPANY
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Business strategist Peter Drucker wrote that what gets measured, gets managed.
Howard Jacobson • Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
A closer look shows that the hierarchies are constructed on a “building block” principle: subsystems at each level of the hierarchy are constructed by combinations of small numbers of subsystems from the next lower level.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Less is more. “A few extremely well-chosen objectives,”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
successful leveraging of top professionals is at the heart of the success of the professional firm.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Given a choice between functionally equivalent designs, the simplest design should be selected.1
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler • Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
Lightweight performance reviews,