Tag: Leadership
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On Saturday, I had lunch with one of my most successful founders. As I dug into my burger, he said something that stopped me cold. “We give away swag bags to new customers,” David* said. “The tote bags themselves cost $0.30 each.” In that moment, I recognized something I’ve seen…
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Michael Jordan plays basketball better than anyone else in the world does anything else. Scott Turow, quoted in Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made The Chicago Bulls dominated their league like no other team in no other sport during the 1990’s. They won 6 NBA championships,…
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Elad Gil is a Silicon Valley legend. After selling his startup to Twitter, he helped the company scale from 90 to 1500 people in under 3 years. He’s also had enormous success as an angel investor, investing in startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, Square and Stripe. So I was very excited…
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At its widest point, Russia spans nearly 5,000 miles from the Vistula Spit in the west to the Kuril Islands in the east. In 1994, its military numbered 1.4 million. It had a massive air force and heavily armed infantry, along with the latest technologies like guided missiles. Chechnya is…
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“I owe everything to America.” That’s Thomas ‘Drago’ Dzieran, who left Communist Poland in the 1980’s for freedom in America and became a Navy SEAL. His path to the teams is singular. Drago began to oppose Communism at an early age. He refused to learn Russian in school and was…
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What motivates subordinates? A fat paycheck, stock options, maybe a free trip to Hawaii? Perhaps. But on Monday’s Debrief podcast, Navy SEAL Commander and author Jocko Willink named another, more powerful inducement: “Ownership is the most powerful compensation you can give a human being.” People want control over their lives,…
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Tremendous 