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1. Trust. Without trust, communication breaks. More specifically: In any human interaction, the required amount of communication is inversely proportional to the level of trust.
2. The more brains working on the hard problems, the better.
3. A good culture is like the old RIP routing protocol: Bad news travels fast; good news travels slow.
A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.
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Parcells: āAl, I am just not sure how we can win without so many of our best players. What should I do?ā
Davis: āBill, nobody cares, just coach your team.ā That might be the best CEO advice ever.
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While hiring,
āLook for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.ā
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Andy Grove said that : Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform.
Two primary reasons why people quit:
Solution: An outstanding training program can address both issues head-on.
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Two key techniques to be useful in minimizing politics.
Certain activities attract political behavior includes:
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Solution: The best way to mitigate both is with a properly constructed and highly disciplined promotion process.(More about it š)
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For example, if Jasper is the worst vice president in the company, then all of the directors will benchmark themselves against Jasper and demand promotions as soon as they reach his low level of competency.
Solution:
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The early days of Facebook, Zuckerberg deployed a shocking motto: Move fast and break things.
Meaning: If you move fast and innovate, you will break things.
The following things that cause no trouble when you are small become big challenges as you grow:
Solution:
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When someone learns to drive a race car, one of the first lessons taught is that when you are going around a curve at 200 mph, do not focus on the wall; focus on the road. If you focus on the wall, you will drive right into it. If you focus on the road, you will follow the road. Running a company is like that. There are always a thousand things that can go wrong and sink the ship. If you focus too much on them, you will drive yourself nuts and likely crash your company.
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Truly great leaders create an environment where the employees feel that the CEO cares more about the employees than she cares about herself. In this kind of environment, an amazing thing happens: A huge number of employees believe itās their company and behave accordingly.
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Very early on, Jeff Bezos envisioned a company that made money by delivering value to rather than extracting value from its customers. In order to do that, he wanted to be both the price leader and customer service leader. You canāt do that if you waste a lot of money. He decided to build frugality into his culture. All desks at Amazon.com would be built by buying cheap doors from Home Depot and nailing legs to them. Why? āWe look for every opportunity to save money so that we can deliver the best products for the lowest cost.ā
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The judgment that you have to make is,
(a) Is this market really much bigger (more than an order of magnitude) than has been exploited to date? and
(b) Are we going to be number one?
If the answer to either (a) or (b) is no, then you should consider selling.
If the answers to both are yes, then selling would mean selling yourself and your employees short.
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A company without a story is usually a company without a strategy. Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezosās three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazonās story in this extended formānot as a mission statement, not as a taglineāJeff got all the people who mattered on the same page as to what Amazon was about.
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