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Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

One way to acquire status is to start an organization that is so compelling in its mission that high-status people join the project and you build both status and a network of important relationships.

Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't

FOCUS ON MINIMAL VIABLE PROGRESS

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

These forces are disrupting how we interact with our colleagues and creating new demands to restructure organizations to become more competitive.

Paul Leonardi • The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

significant parts of the organization should be structured as projects-that is, with teams and processes designed to move knowledge forward a stage-with a definite end point.

Roger L. Martin • The Design of Business

5. Be Direct and Respect Your Colleagues, which I find as the company grows— one of my colleagues, Boz, has this saying that we’re in danger of nicing ourselves to death. And Sheryl always says that the amount of progress that we make is directly proportional to the number of hard conversations that we’re willing... See more

Mark Zuckerberg • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)

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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Researchers Debra Meyerson and Maureen Scully have found that to succeed, originals must often become tempered radicals. They believe in values that depart from traditions and ideas that go against the grain, yet they learn to tone down their radicalism by presenting their beliefs and ideas in ways that are less shocking and more appealing to mains

Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

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