“Growth sucks cash. This is the first law of entrepreneurial gravity. And nothing ages a CEO and his or her team faster than being short of cash. In fact, Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, in their best-selling book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, found that successful companies held three to 10 times more cash assets than average for their industries, and they did so from the time they started. (We highly recommend that you read this book, Collins’ first that directly addresses growth firms.)”
― Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
― Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
“In order to have the best life possible, you have to: 1) know what the best decisions are and 2) have the courage to make them.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“It’s even more important that decision making be evidence-based and logical when groups of people are working together. If it’s not, the process will inevitably be dominated by the most powerful rather than the most insightful participants, which is not only unfair but suboptimal.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together. This task involves many moments of high-candor feedback, uncomfortable truth-telling, when they confront the gap between where the group is, and where it ought to be.”
― The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
― The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
“I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “ … and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
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