Category: leadership
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I’d previously highlighted Carnegie’s 23 traits of an attractive personality. Here are Andrew Carnegie’s 45 causes of failure. 1. Habit of drifting through life without a definite major purpose 2. Unfavorable physical heredity at birth 3. Habit of meddlesome curiosity into other people’s affairs 4. Inadequate preparation for the work in which one engages 5.…
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I’m going to start this essay with an ask. Please invest 5:57 watching the video below. It’s from 1966. In it, the BBC asked kids what life would be like in 2000. It’s worth it for their responses (and their dope British accents). I’ll see you below after you’ve watched. What struck you? I was…
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Charlie Munger, of Berkshire Hathaway fame, famously once said I want to know where I’m going to die so I will never go there. While humorously expressed, this is a profound example of inversion theory — a mental model that looks to avoid mistakes to increase the odds of success. When I was looking to…
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Disclaimer: I’ve never been a hired CEO and have only brought on one CEO, and it is still early days on this transition. In other words, I have an n=1, and the story is still being written. YMMV. I recently spoke with Alex Bridgeman on his great podcast “Think Like an Owner”, and he asked…
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What would you do if you saw your mother running with a football? This is a passage from one of the best books about leadership, teamwork, and motivation I’ve ever read… …and surprisingly, it’s about a high school football team The book is Chasing Perfection: The Principles Behind Winning Football the De La Salle Way…