Sublime

personal project. I began to consider the implications of humans pursuing personal projects in their lives—everyday pursuits that are trivial or transformative, singular or communal, brief encounters or enduring commitments.

changing economic circumstances—declining real wages and increased uncertainty about employment stability and opportunities—created a context in which constant self-improvement is suggested as the only reliable insurance against economic insecurity.

Value is subjective, which means uncertainty governs all economic phenomena.

At least five key hungers conspire to create what is increasingly recognized as a growing crisis in leadership.

By testing our limits and affording the freedom to fail, they release our most creative, ambitious selves.

When I teach leadership seminars, I always teach what’s known as the Pareto (80/20) Principle: In a nutshell, it says that if you focus your attention on the top 20 percent in anything you do, you will get an 80 percent return.

In order to add 500 people a year you need to change the way you approach and scale your recruiting organization, you need to think deeply about employee onboarding, and you need to maintain and evolve your culture. In this chapter we cover these and other shifts required to hire and manage talent.

(5) this new landscape creates a new moral moment in history.

Can we become better than our competition at accumulating, disseminating, and building on our firmwide expertise and experience, so that each professional becomes more valuable in the marketplace by being empowered with a greater breadth and depth of experience?