Execution Tag Archive

Reversible or Irreversible Decisions

(Extracted from Jeff Bezos 1997 Letter to Amazon shareholders) Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically,...

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Group size matters

(Extracted from Principles by Ray Dalio) 1+1=3. Two people who collaborate well will be about three times as effective as the two of them operating independently because they will see what the other might miss,...

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Bezos’s Two Pizza Rule

(Extracted from an article by Janet Choi published on Buffer) According to Bezos, the ideal is the “two pizza team:” if a team couldn’t be fed with two pizzas, it was too big. Social...

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A Poem About Responsibility

(Extracted from Scaling Up by Verne Harnish) This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would...

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Business plan is overated

(Extracted from The Millionaire Fastlane by M.J. DeMarco) Your business plan is useless. The market (the world) will steer your business in unimaginable places that will violate everything about your business plan....

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$15 for a great idea. $1m for great execution

(Extract from Anything You Want by Derek Sivers) AWFUL IDEA = -1 WEAK IDEA = 1 SO-SO IDEA = 5 GOOD IDEA = 10 GREAT IDEA = 15 BRILLIANT IDEA = 20 NO EXECUTION = $1 WEAK EXECUTION =...

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