Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
James A. Belascoamazon.com
Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Greatness Without Goals
joincolossus.comAs the former CEO of both Data Domain and ServiceNow, two successful tech companies in recent years, I am often confronted with questions: what did you guys do? What is the secret sauce? How did you do it? We never thought of ourselves as that different. We certainly didn’t think we had stumbled on a silver bullet. Did we just get incredibly lucky ... See more
Vagueness causes confusion, but clarity of thought and purpose is a huge advantage in business. Good leadership requires a never‐ending process of boiling things down to their essentials. Spell out what you mean! If priorities are not clearly understood at the top, how distorted will they be down the line?
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
Work on “Fixes That Backfire” often leads people to a shared vision exercise: Is your vision present in the fixes that you are doggedly pursuing? Or are you trying to solve a problem which has little to do with where you actually want to go?