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He’d grown accustomed to being appalled by what he found, until gradually each incremental problem was downgraded from shocking to surprising to just another day at Deutsche.
“The deadly mistake that Tyler, Floyd, Roberto [Heras], and the rest of them made when they left Postal was to assume that they’d find other doctors who were as professional. But when they got out there, they found—whoops!—there weren’t any others.”
― The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
― The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
“Chips from Taiwan provide 37 percent of the world’s new computing power each year. Two Korean companies produce 44 percent of the world’s memory chips. The Dutch company ASML builds 100 percent of the world’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, without which cutting-edge chips are simply impossible to make. OPEC’s 40 percent share of world oil production looks unimpressive by comparison. The”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
“If you have a team of five stunning employees and two adequate ones, the adequate ones will sap managers’ energy, so they have less time for the top performers, reduce the quality of group discussions, lowering the team’s overall IQ, force others to develop ways to work around them, reducing efficiency, drive staff who seek excellence to quit, and show the team you accept mediocrity, thus multiplying the problem.”
― No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
― No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
“I don’t understand the whole fuss at all. If you test someone 215 times and he is always negative, then the problem is in the test itself. Well, I’m not responsible.”
― The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
― The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
“She found a way to calculate how much money his moodiness was costing the business. She spoke to him in his own financial language, adding a shot of her infectious humor to the communication, and Barry was moved. He went back to his team, told them about the feedback he’d received, and asked them to call him out when his mood was influencing their actions. The results were remarkable. In the subsequent weeks and months, many on the finance team spoke to me and Patty about the positive change in Barry’s leadership.”
― No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
― No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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