Silicon Valley brainstorming sessions often begin with someone saying, “There are no bad ideas.” I’ve always disagreed. There are bad ideas. But you don’t know an idea is bad until you’ve tried it.
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“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
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Strategy for Getting Feedback
“When people hesitate to give honest feedback on an idea, draft, or performance, I ask for a 0-10 score.
No one ever says 10. Then I ask how I can get closer to a 10.
It motivates them to start coaching me—and motivates me to be coachable. I want to learn how to close the gap.” -
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An interesting set of corporate memos (oxymoron?) written for internal audiences by company leaders. The memos are curated by Sriram Krishnan, co-host of The Good Time Show on Clubhouse.
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Think Again by Adam Grant
Elizabeth Krumrei Mancuso and her colleagues write, “Learning requires the humility to realize one has something to learn.
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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger I was five or six in when he shook his head and said, “Stop talking. Once you have that many of them, they’re no longer priorities.” Priorities are the few things that you’re going to spend a lot of time and a lot of capital on. Not only do you undermine their significance by having too many, but nobody is going to remember them all. “You’re going to seem unfocused,” he said. “You only get three. I can’t tell you what those three should be. We don’t have to figure that out today.
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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Steve Jobs – What's important to you in the development of a product?
True! Found that Iteration during Execution and Execution are tremendously important. Find that ideas are sometimes as little as 5% of success. There are a lot of ideas that I love that I know I won’t execute on and I give them away hoping someone else will execute them.
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Begin with the end in mind…
Asked for advice today from a young engineer on how to be engaged in a career more meaningful than a corporate path was allowing. My answer:
You can’t plan from today to the future, but you can from the future to today. Pick a future in 2040 you want to live in. Imagine it deeply. Then figure out what is missing that is keeping that from happening, even if small, and focus on that. Figure out what is keeping THAT from happening, until you find something small enough that you might be able to make the difference to make it happen. Do it, but never forget your long-term future. Keep revisiting it until it happens.
— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) March 25, 2017
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On the wall of Belize International Airport …
There are seven days in a week, and someday isn’t one of them.