Sublime

incentives.

As I observed more than once at Facebook, and as I imagine is the case in all organizations from business to government, high-level decisions that affected thousands of people and billions in revenue would be made on gut feel, the residue of whatever historical politics were in play, and the ability to cater persuasive messages to people either bus

There ain’t enough happens in soccer. It’s like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.

Managers have the difficult job of leading two distinct entities—the company’s goals and the desires of the workers—into a state of unremitting flexibility. They must do this while never causing the company to lose profits.

president of the Kuwait Football Association stormed onto the field to protest a goal by France after his players believed a whistle had been blown to stop play. In his robe, sandals, and kaffiyeh, the sheikh berated the Ukrainian official, who then stunningly reversed his decision. The sheikh returned to the stands, and France swamped Kuwait, 4–1.

The press, sometimes they don’t understand that we’re human beings. It was a lot of pressure to be The Emperor. I came from nothing. I was a kid who just wanted to go play football and then drink his drink and hang out with his boys. And I know that’s not something you hear from a lot of footballers these days, because everything is so serious