Warren decided early in his career it would be impossible for him to make hundreds of right investment decisions, so he decided that he would invest only in the businesses that he was absolutely sure...
Up to that point I had always known logically that I could choose not to study law. But emotionally it had never been an option. That’s when I realized that in sacrificing my power to choose I had mad...
Understanding the overarching intent allows him to make the corrections that even Spielberg himself might not be able to verbalise.
The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X or even 1,000X but by 10,000X.
The team also uses an explicit set of criteria in making their evaluation. Their primary criterion is, Will this person be an absolutely natural fit? That is why they have designed the selection proce...
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Less but better is a principle whose time has come.
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. And
Most people have heard of the Pareto Principle, the idea, introduced as far back as the 1790s by Vilfredo Pareto, that 20 per cent of our efforts produce 80 per cent of results. Much later,
In the many hours Geoff spent resting he came to see an interesting paradox in his addiction to achievement: for a type A personality, it is not hard to push oneself hard. Pushing oneself to the limit...
In The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett and David Clark explain: Warren decided early in his career it would be impossible for him to make hundreds of right investment decisions, so he decided that...
Hay muchas más actividades y oportunidades en el mundo que el tiempo y los recursos con que contamos para invertir en ellas.
Have you ever felt stuck because you believed you did not really have a choice? Have you ever felt the stress that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory beliefs: I can’t do this and I ha...
Essentialists ask the tougher but ultimately more liberating question, Which problem do I want? An Essentialist makes trade-offs deliberately.
The role of CEO as being the chief editor of the company.
The question you should be asking yourself is not: What, of my list of competing priorities, should I say yes to? Instead, ask the essential question: What will I say no to?
If we just say yes because it is an easy reward, we run the risk of having to later say no to a more meaningful one.
A simple, systematic process you can use to apply selective criteria to opportunities that come your way. First, write down the opportunity. Second, write down a list of three minimum criteria the opt...
When faced with so many tasks and obligations that you can’t figure out which to tackle first, stop. Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is most important this very sec...
This experience brought me to the liberating realization that while we may not always have control over our options, we always have control over how we choose among them.
Then Nancy read Jim Collins’s Good to Great, in which he contends if there’s one thing you are passionate about – and that you can be best at – you should do just that one thing. That’s when she reali...