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David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
beware of mistaking past accomplishments and experience for future potential. Background and talent determine where people start, but character skills shape how far they can climb.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Mark Fisher • Exiting the Vampire Castle
When his employer, the Bell Labs research center in New York, refused to promote Shockley to senior management, he quit to launch Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. He hired several PhDs from MIT and moved to California in the earliest days of what became Silicon Valley. Right from the start, Shockley Semiconductor had a paranoid, authoritarian, an
... See moreJoshua Yellin • The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Problems Startups Face
(1) the leadership industry is large and prominent, but, notwithstanding its magnitude and reach, (2) workplaces in the United States and around the world are, for the most part (as there are obviously exceptional places on best-places-to-work lists), filled with dissatisfied, disengaged employees who do not trust their leaders; (3) leaders at all
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
In every organization, there is a natural tension between the need for expertise and the need to let frontline people make decisions.