Chris Parry
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Chris Parry
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”
Everything has its season,
all exists in oscillation.
Each of you can benefit from what the other one knows,” says Peurifoy. “To receive and hold on to the wisdom that’s imparted to you without prejudice is critical.” After all, giving advice is a form of sharing your own experiences. If a friend offers you advice based on their life, listen. You don’t have to treat it as a lesson; instead, you can fr
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When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.
from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
The word priority was originally derived from the Latin word "prioritas," which means "to come first." There is no plural in first. There can only ever be one true priority. Overwhelm is a symptom. Having multiple priorities is often the cause.
Trying to navigate more than one priority often results in a chaotic juggle where, despite our best intent... See more
Trying to navigate more than one priority often results in a chaotic juggle where, despite our best intent... See more
Priority
Team Traits
"Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN— and here is the essence of all I’ve said— you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH...I’m not trying to send you out 'on the road' in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out
... See more“What gets measured gets done,” Peter Drucker once famously said. But the terrible thing is that this often translates to the only things getting done being the things easily measured. And much of the richness, meaning, and fulfilment in life come from the things that can’t be measured easily
To gain certainty, we must embrace fuzziness. Where the operationally driven leader manufactures an artificial sense of certainty — often in the form of clear targets and goals — the pioneering leader feels no such need. As such a leader, you're comfortable making progress while only having a fuzzy sense of the potential destination. You don't wait
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