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3-2-1: Net productivity, how to make meaningful connections, and resilience
Prepare supporting data and arguments.
G. Richard Shell • Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
the ones who acknowledged they could not predict the unexpected and therefore prepared better.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“Mise en place is the religion of all good line cooks,” Anthony Bourdain wrote in Kitchen Confidential. “Your station, and its condition, its state of readiness, is an extension of your nervous system.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
As the leader of my organization I am responsible for creating the environment that enables each person to assume responsibility for his or her own performance. The people own the responsibility for delivering great performance. I am responsible for creating the environment where this ownership takes place.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
SALES IS HIDDEN
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Document your Plan A. Identify the riskiest parts of your plan. Systematically test your plan.
Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
There are two ways to handle such a world: try to predict, or try to prepare. Prediction is tempting. For all of human history, seers and soothsayers have turned a comfortable trade. The problem is that nearly all studies of “expert” predictions in such complex real-world realms as the stock market, geopolitics, and global finance have proven again
... See moreRhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Special ops are extremely organized, well-trained, committed, laser-focused on the mission, and extremely swift.