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where competition has been intense, differences between firms practicing at different parts of the spectrum are readily identifiable.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
With the old masters, my goal was to do what they did. When I began “imagining” the moves of those two basketball players I so greatly admired on that early pre-college tour I took to Canada, my goal was never to reproduce what they did—but to counter their moves.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Every team needs either a confrontational star player or coach. In San Antonio, Gregg Popovich was that guy and Tim Duncan was not. In Golden State, Draymond Green is the confrontational one; Steve Kerr is not. For us, Phil was not that type of person, so I provided that force.
Kobe Bryant • The Mamba Mentality
Campbell’s Soup which said “Limit of 12 per person.” The other group was confronted with a display sign which read “No Limit per Person.” Shoppers in the first group bought seven cans on average, and the shoppers in the latter group only half as many. At play here is not only an anchor effect—the sign suggests that buying 12 cans is normal—but also
... See moreHermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
By far the best account of Benny Leonard, both of his mystique and of his fighting style, I discovered, is by Budd Schulberg in one of his collections of boxing pieces. Schulberg, to my mind, may be the most underrated of all American authors, the author of the best firsthand account of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Disenchanted, and the in
... See moreAdam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
The best way to solve a management problem, he believed, was through “creative confrontation”—by facing people “bluntly, directly, and unapologetically.”*
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
With processes, critical knowledge no longer depends on a particular person; it is embedded in the organization and can be transmitted across generations. Any person can be replaced by another that takes over the same role in the process. Even the chief is replaceable, in an orderly succession, and Amber Organizations can therefore survive for cent
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
noninterventionist main owner, Tony Korner.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
You could never defend Kareem by reacting to what he did. If he started his move, it would be too late to do much about it.