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#210
THE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE THE VISION: THE ANDY GROVE ATTRIBUTE
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
All Great Groups share information effectively. Many of the leaders we have looked at were brilliant at ensuring that all members of the group had the information they needed. Bob Taylors weekly meeting at PARC was a simple, efficient mechanism for sharing data and ideas.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” –Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Management scholar Peter Drucker nailed it decades ago when he said “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Bam!
Jason Fried • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
On the one hand, a group is a collection of individuals who coordinate their efforts. On the other hand, a team is a group that is bound by shared responsibilities and goals. Their members work together and share mutual accountability to solve problems and achieve common goals.
Addy Osmani • Leading Effective Engineering Teams: A Deepdive
And yet, working together in teams is how the world moves forward. We can create things far grander and more ambitious than anything we could have done alone. This is how battles are won, how innovation moves forward, how organizations succeed. This is how any remarkable achievement happens.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Productivity comes first from character, not techniques.