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Leadership ideas that are practical and actionable – all from the very best.
One Thing That Great Leaders Understand
What is Leadership Leadership is about knowing the right set of goals to complete in the first place — it is about setting direction. In business, we often call this…
How to get the most out of your team
Are good leaders just inherently better people? The short answer is no. A high-performing team is about the environment in which people work. In order to get the best out…
The rule of three in persuasion
How many positive claims should you make at once about your product? Use three positive claims about your product in your messages (e.g. ads, website, packaging) to maximize how persuasive…
7 Key skills for virtual leaders
If you find yourself leading a team whose members you may never actually get to meet in person, these 7 skills will make you a better virtual leader. Clarify expectations. Reduce…
#LeadershipDevelopment: What Great Leaders Should Do (And What They Should Not!)
Important lessons in your career can come from brief interactions with effective leaders. Dan Rose shares one of those lessons in this post!
Leadership 101: Be a Practitioner, Not Just a Manager!
Dan Rose talks about what it takes to be a great leader and what his manager Sheryl Sandberg taught him about leadership!
Time for Strategic Annual Planning? Here is how to go about it
A thread by Shreyas Doshi on how to go about annual planning, keeping the right focus and thesis in perspective. In the next few weeks, the much-dreaded annual planning exercise…
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.
