How to Manage a Team of B Players - HBR
What allows a team of B players to achieve A+ success? A great deal of scientific evidence suggests that the key determinants are psychological factors — in particular, the leader’s ability to inspire trust, make competent decisions, and create a high-performing culture where the selfish agendas of the individual team members are eclipsed by the group’s goal, so that each person functions like a different organ of the same organism ...
Note to self do more 1:1's with team
Speed as a Habit - First Round Review
I’ve long believed that speed is the ultimate weapon in business ....
Angela Baldonero's Philosophy On Interviewing - Feld Thoughts
Some thoughts on how to interview ....
What Navy SEALs Can Teach Your Company About Effective Communication | inc.com
Trust and Communication ....
Aggregation Theory - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The value chain for any given consumer market is divided into three parts: suppliers, distributors, and consumers/users. The best way to make outsize profits in any of these markets is to either gain a horizontal monopoly in one of the three parts or to integrate two of the parts such that you have a competitive advantage in delivering a vertical solution. In the pre-Internet era the latter depended on controlling distribution ....
Inside Amazon |technologyreview.com
Inside Amazon, with some pretty amazing tech that is changing how we think about distribution ...
Is NZ’s economy heading the same way as Greece? | garethsworld.com
Interesting video comparing Greece, Australia and NZ
Excellence Comes From Saying No — HBS Working Knowledge
In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law students help each other define and achieve their own interpretations of success. Lesson one: You can't be great at everything ...
Windows 10 updates to be automatic and mandatory for Home users | Ars Technica
Windows Update can't be readily disabled in Windows 10 Home, and the license terms that all users must agree to allow Microsoft to install updates automatically ... (this is good)