The Game of Few

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Business

A collection of 5 issues

Avoiding ruinous empathy

For any manager looking to improve, probably the strongest book recommendation I would give is Radical Candor, by Kim Scott. The core idea is that as a manager you should care personally about your direct reports, but that you should also challenge them directly. When you have both of these

Great Teams Have Psychological Safety

I’ve always wanted to be great at building and leading great teams. I’ve had the pleasure of working with all sorts of different people, with different combinations of personalities, skills and strengths. What’s the point of coming to work if you’re not trying to build something

Pursuing Impossible Goals: Lessons From Nike

“The cowards never started,” he’d tell me, “and the weak died along the way - that leaves us.” Shoe Dog is the autobiographical account of how Phil Knight founded and grew Nike from nothing to become the biggest sportswear and shoe brand in the world. Since it’s release

Why Grit Matters

“I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think this is an eminently important difference.” — Charles Darwin When I was in my final year at school, I remember being deeply offended by a comment made

The New ABCs of Selling

Daniel Pink makes a compelling case for a new frame of mind: Everyone does sales. It's an entirely human activity and one that doesn't deserve the bad reputation it often gets.