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The expected value of your impact on the world is like a vector: Sam Altman
Wanna create a meaningful impact in the world? Sam Altman has some perspective to share. » NextBigWhat’s #Threadmill brings you curated Twitter threads on product, life and growth. Vector theory…
The most important life lesson from Dhoni: Systems vs. Goal thinking
TRADITIONAL wisdom tells us that best way to achieve what we want in life— be in your personal, career or business —is to set specific, actionable goals. But then, this…
Worry about the Controllables and not results: Dhoni on Being Captain Cool.
Worry about the controllables. Thinking about the results will not give you the results. Taking care of small steps helps.
Behind Dhoni’s Calmness and Controlled Emotions #LeadershipSkills
“What needs to be done right now is more important”. At the end of the day, process is more important than the result.
Why is there only 1 Elon Musk in this entire world?
2/ To do something like Musk, you’d have to be at the 99%ile of not 2 or 3, but maybe 5+ skills and attitudes e.g. pain-tolerance, risk taking, long term…
How to delegate: Richard Branson shares his learnings
1. Identify your strengths and weaknesses.
2. Do the same for your business as a whole
3. Use your findings to guide recruitment and evaluate your existing team.
4. Shift the hierarchy and establish a company culture where every idea is welcome, communicationis open and collaboration is embedded in every decision.
5. Now that you have established a loyal and trustful team with talent in the right places, you can sit back and start looking at the big picture.
Being an infinite player
Finite players compete with everything around themselves. Infinite players focus on getting better everyday.
Well, culture DOESN’T eat strategy for breakfast!
Peter Drucker famously said: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. It meant that screw what executive suite says, what matters is what people are actually doing. And that’s correct. However, the truth is that culture and strategy do not compete.
The Decision-Making Secret Shared by Pixar and a World Chess Champion
A bad outcome doesn’t mean you made a bad decision. An excerpt from Loonshots.
Analyzing the decision process behind a move I’ll call level 2 strategy, or system mindset.
The principle applies broadly. You can analyze why an investment went south. The company’s balance sheet was too weak, for example. That’s outcome mindset. But you will gain much more from analyzing the process by which you arrived at the decision to invest. What’s on your diligence list? How do you go through that list? Did something distract you or cause you to overlook or ignore that item on the list? What should you change about what’s on your list or how you conduct your analyses or how you draw your conclusions — the process behind the decision to invest — to ensure that mistake won’t happen again? That’s system mindset.
The Harvard Principles of Negotiation: Separate the person from the issue
Wanna learn the tricks of negotiation? Dr. Thomas Henschel (Academy of Mediation in Berlin) explains ‘The Harvard Approach’ and How to get a Yes in every negotiation. Separate the person…
