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Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

Bob Carlton

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“The need to constantly adapt is the new reality for many workers” was the theme of the piece headlined “The Age of Adaptation.” The story had a term for what is now required of many workers—serial mastery.

Warren Berger • A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

Sometimes developing your basic goods and making the most effective use of them is best accomplished when you can go beyond the crowd and identify something distinctive on your own—that’s when really special things can happen.

Laura Huang • Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

I remember a McKinsey women’s event where fifteen or twenty young consultants from the San Francisco office sat around a glossy oval table listening to a junior partner speak about her successful ascent. The topic turned to work-life balance, as it always did at such events, and she advised us as follows: If there is a household task where it matte... See more

Paul Graham

Steven Schlafman • 1 card

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.

Elad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People

The company’s mission and founders attracted me, but most of all, it offered the chance to build again, and to scale the type of product that I thought could positively impact millions of businesses—and, in doing so, potentially create millions of jobs. This has been a motivation of mine since I first worked in politics, where I saw how economic op

Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.