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“We can list more than 20 dimensions we’ve found in successful leaders: the ability to create a vision, thinking strategically, building influential internal and external networks, courage to make tough decisions, and so on. Successful leadership is multidimensional for sure. But most of the traits of successful leaders can be distilled down to two elements. They know how to: bring multiple teams together make great decisions And these two elements have a lot to do with whether organizations are agile.”
― It's the Manager: Gallup finds the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization's long-term success.
― It's the Manager: Gallup finds the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization's long-term success.
“His sales philosophy revolved around focusing on features (technical aspects of products) over benefits (why what we’re selling matters). It’s the classic what versus why sales contrast, in which focusing more on the why has been proven time and again to be the better option.”
― My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew
― My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew
“The next day—Christmas Eve—Musk called in reinforcements. Ross Nordeen drove from San Francisco. He stopped at the Apple Store in Union Square and spent $2,000 to buy out the entire stock of AirTags so the servers could be tracked on their journey, and then stopped at Home Depot, where he spent $2,500 on wrenches, bolt-cutters, headlamps, and the tools needed to unscrew the seismic bolts. Steve Davis got someone from The Boring Company to procure a semi truck and line up moving vans. Other enlistees arrived from SpaceX.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“In the late eighteenth-century, German educationalist Friedrich Froebel found that the best way to promote learning in children was through play. His studies found that people are naturally creative, and that their creativity was best brought out inside educational environments that included materials (which he called “gifts”) that encouraged learning through hands-on play. The idea was to teach young children through ways they valued and enjoyed rather than through ways they viewed as useless and boring.”
― My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew
― My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew
“The problem is, while conversion of the energy grid to solar would make a lot of money for the companies building and installing solar panels, the total carbon footprint and environmental impact may not be so much better—if at all. The sun may be a renewable energy source; solar panels are anything but. They don’t grow on trees, but require the mining of aluminum, copper, and rare earth metals, already in low supply. The manufacturing of solar panels is itself an extremely energy-intensive process that involves the superheating of quartz into silicon wafers, vast quantities of water, and large quantities of toxic byproducts and runoff. The solar panels themselves begin degrading just a few years after installation, and need to be replaced every decade or two. Solar panel disposal creates a host of other toxicity and environmental problems, and as long as it remains cheaper for manufacturers to dump them as landfill, we won’t be seeing a robust recycling program for them anytime soon.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Scott’s 2024 Year in Books
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