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You do learn that people get to be fully formed adults fairly early and it's hard to change people's behavior, although it is easy to cushion how they behave with people that buffer their weaknesses. As you go along, you get more microscopic in understanding people before you invest in them if you are going to sit on the board specifically. You can
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The problem, McLean decided, was the maritime mindset: Pan-Atlantic’s staff, experienced in the slow-moving ways of the maritime industry, did not know how to sell to an industrial traffic manager who cared not about ships, but about getting freight to the customer on schedule at low cost. McLean brought in a team of aggressive young trucking execu
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Caroline sensed, rightly, that her departure alerted Jane Street to an alarming new threat. Jane Street and the other high-frequency trading firms had been fishing for traders in the same ponds as Will MacAskill and the other Oxford philosophers fished for effective altruists. People able to calculate the expected value of complicated financial gam
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Shane Parrish • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled
Essayez aussi ceux de Assess First, ou encore le test de Elveo pour les entrepreneurs.
Jean de la Rochebrochard • Human Machine (STO.ESSAIS.DOCU) (French Edition)
This curiosity is about models, frameworks, cultural understandings, disciplines, and methods of thought, the kinds of traits that made John Stuart Mill such a great thinker and writer. A more recent example is Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder of Stripe (and also an active writer). His content can draw from economics, science, history, Irish cu
... See moreDaniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Having interviewed thousands of experts over the years, it seems like they typically go through four or five cycles. They do something. They’re very competent. Then they cross over to something else, like a Venn diagram,
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Internal or external, in my experience startup teams require three structural attributes: scarce but secure resources, independent authority to develop their business, and a personal stake in the outcome.