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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ff607cc | Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking | Jeff Atwood | ||
| 9143551 | 5. Pay now and consume later | Jeff Atwood | ||
| bd9f979 | But everyone should try writing a little code, because it somehow sharpens the mind, right? | Jeff Atwood | ||
| 0e9b070 | 6. Think about what you're not thinking about | Jeff Atwood | ||
| 50882b3 | Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction. | Jeff Atwood | ||
| e1589e7 | If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. | Jeff Atwood | ||
| 60b1586 | I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments | Jeff Atwood | ||
| 644a193 | Third places remain upbeat because of the limited way in which the participants are related. Most of the regulars in a third place have a unique and special status with regard to one another. It is special in that such people have neither the blandness of strangers nor that other kind of blandness, which takes zest out of relationships between even the most favorably matched people when too much time is spent together, when too much is know.. | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| 4b32c0a | As Ray states in , the nature of a third place is one in which the presence of a "regular" is always welcome, although never required. Membership is a simple, fluid process of frequent social contact, renewed each time by choice of the people involved. Eventually, social bonds develop through a type of informal intimacy. The important aspect of these relationships is that they occur outside of any commitment and exist solely in the realm o.. | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| da51d76 | We are an open mixing place for the general public, but we are strongly committed to bringing together people who may not normally spend time together in the hope that they will become friends, seeking deeper relationships with each other and with the community. A sign I once saw in an old cafe window proclaimed, "There are no strangers here, just friends who haven't met," and that pretty much captures what we're about." | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| 71ceae0 | fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6a36816 | 1) Remain silent you share of the time (more rather than less). 2) Be attentive while others are talking. 3) Say what you think but be careful not to hurt others' feelings. 4) Avoid topics not of general interest. 5) Say little or nothing about yourself personally, but talk about others there assembled. 6) Avoid trying to instruct. 7) Speak in as low a voice as will allow others to hear. | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| 0c9c7a0 | It is estimated that American industry loses from $50 billion to $75 billion annually due to absenteeism, company-paid medical expenses, and lost productivity.17 Stress in the lives of the workers is a major cause of these industrial losses. | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| 101260f | 5. Remove the pan from the oven, and use two forks to pull the meat apart in the pan juices, shred-ding it coarsely. 6. For each sandwich, halve a poppy seed roll. Spoon about 2 tablespoons heated barbecue sauce over the bottom. Using a slotted spoon, pile about 1 cup of the shredded meat on the roll. Then pour 2 or 3 tablespoons sauce over the meat, and cover with the top half of the roll. 7. Serve with additional barbecue sauce on the sid.. | Julee Rosso | ||
| 55b6afc | For additional examples, read the Harvard Business Review article titled "Building Your Company's Vision," by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. You'll notice that all the Values listed are phrases, not single words." -- | Verne Harnish | ||
| 1170df2 | An A Player, by the Smarts' definition, is someone in the top 10% of the available talent pool who is willing to accept your specific offer. Read that definition again. They are not implying that you have to pay beyond what your business model can sustain. They do mean that you need to attract the largest and most capable talent pool excited about the job and willing to accept your compensation package | Verne Harnish | ||
| 1b58c7c | Successful athletes know the power of having a strong core, no matter what the sport. | Verne Harnish | ||
| e7d039d | Discerning the Core Values is a discovery process. | Verne Harnish | ||
| 12d17d2 | Leaders have to balance two often competing demands on the business -- People and Process. This | Verne Harnish | ||
| c348ea8 | Individuals or organizations with too many priorities have no priorities and risk spinning their wheels and accomplishing nothing of significance. | Verne Harnish | ||
| a4cf528 | think of Amazon's "two-pizza rule" -- no team should be so big that it can't be fed with two pizzas)." | Verne Harnish | ||
| 64b44dc | The best leaders have the right questions, but turn to their employees, customers, advisors, and the crowd to mine the answers. Every business is more valuable to the degree that it does not depend on its top leader. | Verne Harnish | ||
| b78fe28 | David Meerman Scott says, "You are what you publish." | Verne Harnish | ||
| 6448112 | There are roughly 28 million firms in the US, of which only 4% ever reach more than $1 million in revenue. Of those firms, only about one out of 10, or 0.4% of all companies, ever make it to $10 million in revenue, and only 17,000 companies surpass $50 million. Finishing out the list, the top 2,500 firms in the US are larger than $500 million, and the top 500 public and private firms exceed $5 billion. Data indicate that there are similar r.. | Verne Harnish | ||
| 1fb1af9 | For additional examples, read the Harvard Business Review article titled "Building Your Company's Vision," by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. You'll notice that all the Values listed are phrases, not single words." | Verne Harnish | ||
| e97eef3 | Lynne Twist's insightful book titled The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life | Verne Harnish | ||
| 4832a9f | read Margaret Heffernan's book Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril and Liz Wiseman's Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. To | Verne Harnish | ||
| a827a77 | Who, What, When (WWW): Improve the impact of your weekly meetings by taking a few minutes at the end and summarizing Who said they are going to do What, When. | Verne Harnish | ||
| 11beea9 | Largely ignored, by gurus and governments, are the older, high-impact growth firms. Though they generate almost all of the innovation and job growth in economies, there are not enough of them to garner the favorable attention of politicians or book publishers. For more on this topic, read Verne's interview in Business Review Europe titled "Give the Gazelles a Break"." | Verne Harnish | ||
| defdd03 | Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Outcomes. We start with the functions and processes driving the business, then push for the company to set goals, delineate measurable Brand Promises, and pick Critical Numbers on the One-Page Strategic Plan, including KPIs for both the People and Process sides of the business so the leadership team has a balanced view of performance. | Verne Harnish | ||
| 28491c8 | In setting Strategy, follow the definition from the great business strategist Gary Hamel. You don't have a real strategy if it doesn't pass two tests: First, what you're planning to do really matters to enough customers; and second, it differentiates you from your competition. | Verne Harnish | ||
| 80c2504 | Maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 57caea9 | never the way it seems--all good, all bad. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b245148 | No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4b6d5db | Associated with Habit 6: Synergize is the endowment of creativity--the creation of something. How? By yourself? No, through two respectful minds communicating, producing solutions that are far better than what either proposed originally. Most negotiation is positional bargaining and results at best in compromise. But when you get into synergistic communication, you leave position. You understand basic underlying needs and interests and find.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9971205 | No second chances. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 14c070e | Starched shirts and suits fresh from the cleaners' went a long, long way toward hiding a multitude of sins. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 71b8964 | First things first: find my | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4b8b476 | there is no truth beyond illusion....between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where reality comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and magic. | Tartt Donna | ||
| 29d2fb9 | enough to show the black | Donna Tartt | ||
| e084fe5 | Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis. | James Ellroy | ||
| 77935aa | Tyler was to his left, and to his right were the three other witnesses who had joined them for the headlining session of the first day of testimony. Directly next to Cameron sat Fred Wilson, a seasoned venture capitalist veteran who had moved into the cyber currency space in a big way, with the countenance of someone who had seen a number of technology waves, including the first dot-com boom and bust. Next to Wilson, the up-and-comer ventur.. | Ben Mezrich | ||
| bfd1bd0 | As an entrepreneur, you had one, maybe two, but usually not more than three chances to catch lightning in a bottle; as a venture capitalist, however, you could chase lightning as long as you had cash to invest. | Ben Mezrich | ||
| b6428c1 | You still had to use the Balkanized, legacy banking system, which was built before the internet even existed, littered with middlemen and rent-seekers all along the way. And only if the central authorities of this network allowed it to happen, would your money move at a snail's pace from point A to point B. | Ben Mezrich |