Try filtered groundnut oil (or mustard, til or coconut depending on where you live). Look for the words ‘filtered’ or ‘cold-pressed’ or ‘virgin’ on the label.
“Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.”
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
“To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
― Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
“You have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Ark
― Ark
“Some professionals say you need to have a praise-to-criticism ratio of 3:1, 5:1, or even 7:1. Others advocate the “feedback sandwich”—opening and closing with praise, sticking some criticism in between. I think venture capitalist Ben Horowitz got it right when he called this approach the “shit sandwich.” Horowitz suggests that such a technique might work with less-experienced people, but I’ve found the average child sees through it just as clearly as an executive does.”
― Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
― Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
“Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far. Your role is to improve the purpose, people, and process of your team to get as high a multiplier effect on your collective outcome as you can.”
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
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