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Range • Jori Lallo on Working Effectively Across Different Timezones
It takes not just intelligence, but true confidence to hire people who are better than you.
David Ogilvy, regarded by many as the father of modern advertising, used to onboard new managers by gifting them a set of Russian wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. He then told the recruits that if they hired those who were smarter
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But the really interesting thing is that the choice between trust and control is seldom debated on a rational level. It’s a choice that gets made based on deeply held, often unconscious assumptions we hold about people and their motivations.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
From him I learnt that one’s people and one’s clients are the most important assets. He was a humble leader, armed with vision, courage and cool-headedness.
Carié Maas • Jannie Mouton: And then they fired me
In the absence of job titles and job descriptions, we are more likely to see ourselves and others first and foremost as human beings that happen to put our energy into specific work roles during a period of time.