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nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
check out Do What You Are, which uses the Myers-Briggs framework to break down hundreds of career options by personality type. Even if you aren’t moved by Myers-Briggs, it’s a useful compendium of every way imaginable to make a buck.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Rohit Krishnan • Eureka! On the clustering of geniuses
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND yourself as a system, examine three circles of your loyalties:
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
Jannie builds around the jockey when he sees a business opportunity, provided of course that it’s a special opportunity in PSG’s field of play. Then the business model is almost the jockey’s prerogative, within bounds of course. Often the model is not the point. Jannie would pick the guy and respect his opinion and say: “You tackle it for us.”
Carié Maas • Jannie Mouton: And then they fired me
In Roche’s studies of executives, the average number of mentors was two and among females it was three. Dean Keith Simonton explains: Prospective pupils should draw upon many mentors rather than just one. The same advice has been given in choice of models, and for the same reason. With many mentors on which to base their personal growth, talented y
... See moreEric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
One of the most salient psychological characteristics of those who choose professional careers is a strong need for autonomy. People choose professions (rather than, say, corporate careers) because the work is not routine or rigidly structured. Thus, the professions have more than their share of people with an aversion to taking directions.