Key takeaways: Make key decisions with your partners and customers in mind. Howard designates two empty chairs (imaginary or real?) in every leadership meeting for the Partner (Starbucks employee) and the Customer. Hire for two things: domain expertise and core values. Hire someone who is open to accept equity options as compensation and does notContinue reading “MasterClass: Business Leadership by Howard Schultz”
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MasterClass: Self-Made Entrepreneurship by Sara Blakely
Key takeaways: Avoid sharing your idea on the onset just to receive validation. Wait until you have gathered sufficient evidence to back up its feasibility. Wait until you have built a case that is strong enough that despite contradictions and reservations from the people around you, you will do it anyway. Sara kept her ideaContinue reading “MasterClass: Self-Made Entrepreneurship by Sara Blakely”
Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
“Israel has developed an unusual specialty: an ability not only to cope with but to leverage all sorts of adversity . . . The essence of the Start-up Nation story is a country’s ability to turn adversity into a renewable source of creative energy . . .”
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
A Deep and Detailed Summary by Kyle Kowalski Book Summary on NJlifehacks Study Guide on LitCharts (I was too engrossed in the book that I did not get to take down notes so massive thanks to the above resources, which will be useful when refreshers are needed.)
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
And all of these jobs were physically demanding, some of them even damaging if performed month after month. Now, I am an unusually fit person, with years of weight lifting and aerobics behind me, but I learned something that no one ever mentioned in the gym: that a lot of what we experience as strengthContinue reading “Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich”
What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
1 | The Last Best Word “Perhaps I keep circling back to grace because it is one grand theological word that has not spoiled. I call it ‘the last best word’ because every English usage I can find retains some of the glory of the original.” The great Christian revolutions come not by the discoveryContinue reading “What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey”
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
PART 1 — The Logic of Failure 2 | United Airlines 173 “That is one of the ways that closed loops perpetuate: when people don’t interrogate errors, they sometimes don’t even know they have made one.” “Practice is not a substitute for learning from real-world failure, it is complementary to it.” 3 | The ParadoxContinue reading “Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed”
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
8 | “To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense. But the obedience with the Enemy demands of men is quite a different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His loveContinue reading “The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis”
What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
0 | Preface “When I said that I’m most interested in minor geniuses, that’s what I meant. You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.” “Self-consciousness is the enemy ofContinue reading “What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell”
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