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The lesson from cases of people both keeping and losing their jobs is that as long as you keep your boss or bosses happy, performance really does not matter that much and, by contrast, if you upset them, performance won’t save you. One of the biggest mistakes people make is thinking that good performance—job accomplishments—is sufficient to acquire
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Robert Sterns, who was chief strategist at Compaq until he left in 1998, saw the Digital acquisition as a mistake. “In his [Pfeiffer’s] quest for bigness, he lost an understanding of the customer, and built what I call empty market share—large but not profitable.”
Michael E. McGrath • Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
People-decisions are time-consuming, for the simple reason that the Lord did not create people as “resources” for organization.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
successful firms I know, all of the individual partners act as if they have personal strategic plans for their own careers—they have each thought through what their special value on the marketplace will be, what will make them more than just one more practitioner in their specialty, how they plan to achieve this vision of personal career progress.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Dr. Seuss’s management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
10 Learnings from Peter Drucker’s “The Effective Executive” (as laid out by Jim Collins in the foreword):
1) Know thyself (ratio of "avg performer on your team : Your performance" stays constant)
2) Do what you're made for (what can you do uncommonly well, plan your career on that, eradicate weakness but only within the domain of your strength, don’t
... See morekulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
