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Yet who would one choose: a Warren Buffett who has built up so much; or a Jack Welch who might have managed the largest company in the world, General Electric, but by means of cracking whips and a culture of fear about who would be fired next? PSG subsidiaries have been compelled to retrench people, but I hope I’m leading from the front rather than

Carié Maas • Jannie Mouton: And then they fired me

We learn that being right, clear, and evidence‐based is often not enough.

Peter Block • Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

He’d like to occupy a throne room surrounded by experts in flattery; while in a dungeon beneath, unknown to the world, would be a bunch of able slaves doing his work and producing the things that, to the public, would represent the brilliant accomplishment of his mind. He’s a fool, but worse he is a puking baby.

Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

The time has come to acknowledge expertise as overvalued. There is no question that expertise and hedgehog logic are appropriate in certain domains (i.e. hard sciences), but they certainly appear less fitting for domains plagued with uncertainty, ambiguity, and poorly-defined dynamics (i.e. social sciences, business, etc.). The time has come for le... See more

Vikram Mansharamani • All Hail the Generalist

the more famous an expert was, the less accurate he was.

Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Good to Great, Collins notes that in many of his comparison companies (the ones that didn’t go from good to great, or that went there and declined again), the leader became the main thing people worried about. “The minute a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you hav

Dr Carol Dweck • Mindset

President Kennedy’s normally astute advisers suspended their judgment. Why? Because they thought he was golden and everything he did was bound to succeed.

Carol Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

At least five major constraints can hold you back from summoning courage for the work of leadership: • Loyalties to people who may not believe you are doing the right thing • Fear of incompetence

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart