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Jeff Hilimire • The 5-Day Turnaround: Be the leader you always wanted to be. (the Turnaround Leadership Series)

Bill Gurley, the incredibly smart, wry, contrarian Silicon Valley VC and Texan deal maker, puts it this way: “I can’t make you the smartest or the brightest, but it’s doable to be the most knowledgeable. It’s possible to gather more information than somebody else.”

Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

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Scott Berinato • Good Charts

seemed like Amazon was reinventing the wheel with each integration effort, and this duplication of effort was an expensive and time-consuming waste. So, CEO Jeff Bezos assigned Rick Dalzell the task of “hardening the interfaces” between systems—making sure, in other words, that all the main databases and applications had the same set of ways that t

Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

In 1993, a bank in Abbotsford, Canada, hired a twenty-three-year-old stockbroker named Trent Dyrsmid. Abbotsford was a relatively small suburb, tucked away in the shadow of nearby Vancouver, where most of the big business deals were being made. Given the location, and the fact that Dyrsmid was a rookie, nobody expected too much of him. But he made ... See more

James Clear • How to Stick With Good Habits Every Day by Using the "Paper Clip Strategy"

Deliver Everything You Promised

Jeff Shannon • Lead Engaging Meetings

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Mark Wilson getpocket.com

Jeff Jordan – who’s been involved in everything from eBay to OpenTable to Airbnb – said off the cuff “the secret to everything I’ve done, and it’s not a secret, is economic empowerment. It is building things that help people make money.”

D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy

must help them do their jobs better.