Sublime

But it is very rarely true that 50 percent of causes lead to 50 percent of results. The universe is predictably unbalanced. Few things really matter. Truly effective people and organizations batten on to the few powerful forces at work in their worlds and turn them to their advantage.

Large online education consortia such as Coursera and edX are also pursuing research on the feasibility of such measurement and recommendations.

I noticed that very few software companies were efficiently run. Well, why? The big part was most executives who started software companies wrote code, or they knew a market opportunity and they sold code. There was never anyone who taught them how to run software companies. Then I run across this small company in Houston, Texas, that is the most e

This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan, who spent thirty years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy and now teaches a class called “The Strategic Management of Nonprofits” at the Stanford School of Business.

“Hire slowly and fire quickly.

He pulls an assessment paper out of his back pocket. There are a dozen or so categories students are to be judged on. Beside each, there is a box to check: Satisfactory, Less Than Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory. There is no Good. In this business, it’s survive or not. Thrive is not an option.