Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Unhindered communication was key, no matter what your position.
Ed Catmull • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
A software engineer identifies a weakness in your current product architecture that will significantly impair its ability to scale down the road. She figures out that she’ll have to slip the product schedule three months to fix it. Everybody agrees that three months is an acceptable slip to correct the problem. The schedule actually slips nine mont
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
addition to the obsessive devotion to “professionalism,” there’s another, less virtuous reason why people fail to “care personally.” When they become a boss, some people consciously or unconsciously begin to feel they’re better or smarter than the people who work for them. That attitude makes it impossible to be a kick-ass boss; it just makes peopl
... See moreKim Scott • Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
I think there are a few entrepreneurs that come out that have had protected their generative drive, protected their curiosity, their creativity as they manifest their aggressive drive, and they didn't let their pleasures and their enjoyment of success corrupt them in a way that took their eye off the ball.
But I think those three different drives en... See more
But I think those three different drives en... See more