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How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his t
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
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“Let me break it down for you. In good organizations, people can focus on their work and have confidence that if they get their work done, good things will happen for both the company and them personally. It is a true pleasure to work in an organization such as this. Every person can wake up knowing that the work they do will be efficient, e
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In Asch’s study: Solomon Asch’s classic study about the pressure to conform to a group was published in Groups, Leadership, and Men, edited by Harold Guetzkow (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press, 1951). Asch’s chapter, titled “Effects of Group Pressure upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgment,” appears on pages 177–90.
Rom Brafman • Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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
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