Succession is hard. It's why you still get all these old guys still running companies they founded, long after they should've retired. | Continue reading
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Hastings is known as an organizational genius as much as he is a product guy. Which is why Netflix is known for having a very strong, cut-throat culture. | Continue reading
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So you want to achieve greatness. You’ve decided that ho-hum mediocrity is not for you. Alrighty then.Well, if you’re going to do that, you have to make a choice: whether to take The Big Road or The Little Road. | Continue reading
Back in the summer of 2015, I visited Athens just as the European Central Bank decided to ration the amount of Euros Greeks could take out of their own bank accounts. | Continue reading
Culture is a social construct and training will never be the route to more diverse and inclusive organizations. | Continue reading
At best, money doesn’t make ideas less likely to fail… and at worst, it only makes certain mistakes less likely to be corrected. It certainly makes weaknesses easier to hide. | Continue reading
“Hell Or High Water” was said to be one of the best movies of 2016. It got 4 Oscar nominations, at the very least. | Continue reading
A big part of helping companies is to make their work more meaningful, both to their employees and to their customers. | Continue reading
First lesson in Economics 101: everything is scarce. But is it, really?Because the global economy, today, is less about guns and butter than about ideas and conversations. | Continue reading
As it turns out, he spends most of his time not running the company, but talking to potential new hires. The latter is basically his day job. | Continue reading
The problem is that university business models are not anti-fragile, they aren’t even smart. They are based upon the way the world used to be, not the way it is, and definitely not the way it is going to be. | Continue reading
Two generations ago, we started to outsource child-rearing, so both parents could be breadwinners.Which worked well. Until it didn’t. | Continue reading
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There’s an old Chinese folk tale about two monks.They come to a poor village to beg for food, but no-one has any to spare, each family barely has enough to feed themselves. | Continue reading
A favorite story of ours is about the original Olympic Games, in Ancient Greece.If you won an event, unlike today, you didn’t get a fancy gold medal, or a sponsorship with Nike, or a multimillion-dollar TV deal with ESPN. | Continue reading
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”. | Continue reading
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There’s a species of ant that will climb to the top of long blades of grass, and stop there, waiting to be eaten by passing cows or sheep. | Continue reading
“How you did in this pandemic, as a country, a village, a business, a group, or an individual, whether emotionally, economically, or morally, is an indication of how robust you are and how fit you will be for the next decades.” | Continue reading
The big news this week was, “Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic”. | Continue reading
Their idea being, if you can attract enough good people to your cause, you can climb any mountain, win any battle, kill any dragon, do whatever you want. | Continue reading
McDonald’s had to close all their restaurants for three months because of Covid-19.The Government just allowed them to reopen, and so they created this 40-second commercial to announce the fact to the world. | Continue reading
I have always had a problem with this human conditioning that we need to get good at one thing. The Malcolm Gladwell 10,000-hour rule. I don’t agree. | Continue reading
BS Jobs are basically jobs that not only lack any meaning for the people doing them, they don’t actually need to exist. | Continue reading
Let me ask you a question: if someone gave you, say, 50 million dollars today, would you think that’s a lot of money? I’m not ashamed to say that personally speaking, I would. | Continue reading
Back in the 1990s, the two biggest beer brands in the US were Bud Light and Miller Light. When it came to advertising budgets, they got the biggest slice of the pie. Looking back, the funny thing is how different the advertising was. | Continue reading
The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what we do not. | Continue reading
Musicians, when you get to LA, prepare for a rude awakening.You see, the clubs there don’t pay you to play there. Au contraire, you pay them. It’s called “Pay to play”. | Continue reading
The fact that we exist at all is pretty amazing. It’s a crazy universe out there. And yet we forget that far too often. We forget to be amazed. | Continue reading
As we settle — as best we can — into a new normal work life that includes remote/virtual offices, I want to speak a bit about how I see this experience as an opportunity to strengthen, renew or even create from scratch a positive and compassionate company culture. | Continue reading
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Benjamin Hardy’s new book (released today), Personality Isn’t Permanent, published with Penguin Random House. | Continue reading
We’re all trying to find out what our “True North” is.That mythological one thing that makes this short, painful life thing worth it, somehow. | Continue reading
t’s not just that the new world is starting to feel normal.For many of us, we’re starting to forget what the old world felt like. | Continue reading
The good news is, this is normal. No, you are not insane...no, you are not a failure. This is how you’re SUPPOSED to feel. | Continue reading
We, as humans, like to categorize. It makes the world easier to digest.We fit the people around us into labels: users, coworkers, competitors. | Continue reading
The Economist has this fascinating article about the “Death of The Office”, wondering if maybe, just maybe, in the post-Coronavirus world, the idea of the office has had its day. | Continue reading
“Coronavirus is not a crisis. It is an ambiguous crisis”. F.O.G*, Dr. Keith Merron has a great article on the current situation, “Coronavirus is not a crisis. It is an ambiguous crisis”. | Continue reading
The word ‘innovation’ is invoked with alarming frequency by companies trying to sound up to date but with little or no systematic idea about how it occurs. | Continue reading
For the last decade or so, the consultant-thinkfluencer-futurist-guru crowd has been harping on a lot about “Digital Transformation”. | Continue reading
Systems of Trust surround us. We rely on them thousands of times a day to help us establish trust with people we don’t know | Continue reading
Joan Miró is one of the most important artists of the Twentieth Century; his pieces adorn all the major museums. | Continue reading
To be disrupted, they don’t have to do everything better than you. They just have to do one of two things better than you | Continue reading
What’s remarkable about The New Normal is not how different it is (and for most of us, it is), but HOW QUICKLY it sprang into being. | Continue reading
The one thing that keeps us moving.We all know what it is.Without it we are nothing.With it, we can do anything. | Continue reading
Last time we checked, people were far more interested in boring stuff like paying their bills and how their kids are doing in school. | Continue reading
Well, Congratulations, Former 1990s Twentysomethings!Thanks to Coronavirus, you are now living in a movie, a disaster movie, kinda sorta. | Continue reading