Sublime

Deciding the TRM of your subordinates is not easy. Moreover, even if a manager knows what the TRM is, his personal preferences tend to override the logical and proper choice of management style.

How you handle your own time is, in my view, the single most important aspect of being a role model and leader.

All you can do to improve the output of an employee is motivate and train. There is nothing else.

nobody owes you a career. You own it as a sole proprietor.

Intel was Grove’s laboratory for management innovation. He loved to teach, and the company reaped the benefits.fn2 A few days after getting hired, I received a coveted invitation to Intel’s Organization, Philosophy, and Economics course, known as iOPEC, a seminar on Intel strategy and operations. Resident professor: Dr. Andy Grove.

Leading indicators give you one way to look inside the black box by showing you in advance what the future might look like.

So, Ms. Manager, you know more about our product’s viral loop than anyone in the company? That’s worth exactly nothing unless you can effectively transfer that knowledge to the rest of the organization.

other execs responsible for the core and peripheral business units to use CVC and corporate development (M&A) to avoid just sitting on a number one position in a declining market.

Finally, he reiterates his thesis that there are only two ways in which a manager can impact an employee’s output: motivation and training. If you are not training, then you are basically neglecting half the job.