The Next Corner
occupational hazard for many organizations. Businesses that are agile and responsive are less preoccupied and more aligned with their innate capacities. It can be liberating to realize that preoccupation is always the result of a simple misunderstanding. You have (and everyone in your organization has) the capacity to realize the one way the mind a
... See moreJamie Smart • Results: Think Less. Achieve More
Smart, ambitious executives want to become better at everything. Does this remind you of your firm? Do you sit in meetings where you make long lists of products and processes to improve? The sad news is, of course, that any attempt to get better at everything virtually guarantees mediocrity—exhausted mediocrity at that. By spreading scarce resource
... See moreFelix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
Most of the time, “What should I do with my life?” is a terrible question. “What should I do with this tennis serve?” “What should I do with this line at Starbucks?” “What should I do with this traffic jam?” “How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?” These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes, improvemen
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
The first is learning how to disperse power on an orderly, nonchaotic basis. Right now the word “empowerment” is a very powerful buzzword. It’s also very dangerous. Just granting power, without some method of replacing the discipline and order that come out of a command-and-control bureaucracy, produces chaos. We have to learn how to disperse power
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