Quotes About Leadership

principio sencillo: Si no puedes ser el primero en una categoría, crea una nueva en la que puedas ser el primero.

When you raise your kids, you're the bow, they're the arrow, and you just try to aim them in the best direction that you can, and hopefully your aim isn't too off.

Peter ha escrito en otro lugar: «El próximo Bill Gates no creará un sistema operativo. El próximo Larry Page o Serguéi Brin no hará un buscador de internet. Y el próximo Mark Zuckerberg no creará una red social. Si copias a estos tipos, no estás aprendiendo nada de ellos».

En qué es mejor este producto nuevo al de la competencia?», sino «¿primero en qué?». En otras palabras: «¿En qué categoría es primero este producto?».

La culpa es de mi jefe".

todo el mundo le interesa lo nuevo. Poca gente se interesa por lo mejor. Si eres el primero en una categoría

Ésa es la máxima responsabilidad. Asúmela por completo».

Qué caracteriza a un buen jefe?

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

expulsamos a un par de jefes de cada equipo SEAL por su incapacidad para mandar.

3. En caso de duda, córtales el oxígeno.

Every billionaire suffers from the same problem. Nobody around them ever says, 'Hey, that stupid idea you just had is really stupid.

6. «Intentar gustar a todo el mundo es un signo de mediocridad. Evitarás las decisiones difíciles y evitarás enfrentarte a la gente a la que debes enfrentarte.» — Colin Powell

If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.

About Face, de David H. Hackworth. Otro

When you launch a new product, the first question to ask yourself is not "How is this new product better than the competition?" but "First what?" In other words, what category is this new product first in?

so many bad ideas that lead to authoritarian consequences begin with good intentions.

The Effective Executive,

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (3) Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (3) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman (3) The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss (3) The Bible (3) The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (3) The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (3) Watchmen by Alan Moore (3) Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (3)

6—"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell

Still struggling with a sense of purpose or mission? Roughly half a dozen people in this book (e.g., Robert Rodriguez) have suggested the book Start with Why by Simon Sinek.

SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. —STAR TREK

NR: To have others work for you.

NR: To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.