A-Players Create Success
If Michael Jordan, perhaps the greatest and most driven athlete on the planet, needed a Who, not a How—first in Pippen and later in Grover and Jackson—to achieve and exceed his goals, then do you think the same could be said for you and me? What would happen for us if we, gleaning this precious insight, would shift our mind-set from “how” to “who”?
... See moreDan Sullivan • Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
If you are creating a start-up, or otherwise building an institution from scratch, and hiring a whole team, various markers of talent—including intelligence and cooperativeness—will matter much more. Hiring a whole batch of very smart people has the potential to create strongly positive, dynamic, nonlinear benefits.
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Who were the key players?
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
To say it outright, even the most talented person in the world won’t do well here if they don’t have an interest in helping other people grow and succeed. The question you will be held most accountable for isn’t “how have you gotten better” it's “how did you make someone else better?” Better yet, how have you made the collective, the team, better?