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The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.
Michael W. Preis • 101 Things I Learned® in Business School (Second Edition)
Author of Change to Strange: Create a Great Organization by Building a Strange Workforce (a book that we strongly suggest you read), Cable notes, “If your competitive advantage depends on your people creating something valuable and distinctive, then your workforce can’t be normal.” Therefore, if you want to have a differentiated strategy, you can’t
... See moreVerne Harnish • Scaling Up : How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
The dominant thinking in business today is Orange. To achieve results, people must be motivated by individual incentives. Orange has no problems if this results in large wage differentials, if these differentials are justified by people’s merits and contributions.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Learning business strategy from biographies, specifically Rockefeller's concept of 'secret allies' for gaining an industry advantage.
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Second and biggest thing is I took an idea from one of Rockefeller biographies So one of the things that I do that I also think is important is you read all the famous biographies but you got to go through the bibliographies Books are made out of books Everybody has read Titan by Ron Chernow In the bibliography of that, there's a better, the best
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Organizational growth dynamics: how employee incentives drive administrative bloat and the complexity of managing large organizations
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And here's the kind of sad truth for anyone running a company is there are exceptions. There's like certain types of engineers that are accepting of this, but the overwhelming majority of people you hire want to hire more people who report to them. And it's not because they're evil. It's not because they're stupid. In fact, they're smart
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Effective leadership through collaborative meeting design: empowering teams with bottom-up agenda creation and focused operational reviews
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So you want to get the right people in place. You want to get the compensation aligned. And then you want to be communicating with each other in a very constructive way in a very prolific way.
So Friday we had our second MOR, monthly operating review for this company we had bought, Beacon. It was a 10-hour meeting, two breaks. One was 10 minutes,
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