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In the end, George drew up the only internal org chart ever made of Sam’s sprawling creation. By the time he was done, he’d discovered many interesting things. Twenty-four different people thought that they were reporting directly to Sam, for example. The group included Sam’s father, Joe, and Sam’s childhood friend Matt Nass, whose game, Storybook
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Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,
... See moreWalter Isaacson • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Build-From-Scratch (Game Technique #43)
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces
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Steve Jobs Remembered by Larry Ellison and Pixar's Ed Catmull
strong, shared culture is the glue that keeps empowered organizations from falling apart. Frontline employees are trusted to make the right decisions, guided by a number of shared values, rather than by a thick book of rules and policies.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
America: The Civil War (America, Great Crises In Our History Told by it's Makers)
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