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Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.
What's a better outcome? Better than sum of individuals?
“you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place. The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer. The Struggle is when your employees think you are lying and you think they may be right. The Struggle is when food loses its taste.”
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
“History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
― Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
― Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
“When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.”
― Rework
― Rework
“Vested interests also reinforce the status quo. High-level executives at Fortune 500 companies shun innovation because their compensation is tied to short-term quarterly outcomes that may be temporarily disrupted by forging a new path. “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something,” Upton Sinclair said, “when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Utku Kaynar’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Utku Kaynar’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
269 books
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350 friends
599 books
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69 friends
2,414 books
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3,616 friends
564 books
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319 friends
204 books
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39 friends
78 books
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9 friends
403 books
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42 friends
477 books
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41 friends
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