(Excerpt from The Vision Thing by Fred Wilson) … leadership comes in two flavors, visionary leadership and operational leadership. Founders are almost always visionaries (if they aren’t, run in the opposite...
(Excerpt from Extreme Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin) … they must recognize that when it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting...
(Excerpt from Keep Going by Austin Kleon) Lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb. They want the job title without the work. Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the...
(Extracted from Double Your Profits: In Six Months Or Less by Bob Fifer) All costs are divided into two categories: Strategic costs are defined as all those things that clearly bring in business and improve the bottom...
(Extracted from Whatever It Takes by Stephen Schwarzman) Every entrepreneur knows the feeling: that moment of despair when the only thing you are aware of is the giant gap between where you find yourself and the life...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) Passion is seen in those who can tell you in great detail who they intend to become and what their success will be like—they might even be able to tell you...
(Extracted from Bloomberg on Bloomberg) I’ve always believed that management’s ability to influence work habits through edict is limited. Ordering something gets it done, perhaps. When you turn your back,...
(Extracted from Bloomberg on Bloomberg) The risks attendant with developing technology I think properly belong to the manufacturer or software writer. They get the profits if it works; they should take the grief if...
(Extracted from Bloomberg on Bloomberg) Another software development practice I started at Salomon (and apply at Bloomberg today) was to insist on an explanation from the programmers of what they were trying to do...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Most of us use our calendars all wrong: we don’t schedule work; we schedule interruptions. Meetings get scheduled. Phone calls get scheduled. Doctor...
