Tag: Reflection

Company Culture

Key Insights from "The Year Without Pants" Leadership Lessons from WordPress.com and the Future of Work In "The Year Without Pants," Scott Berkun shares his experience working as a team leader at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. The book offers a fascinating glimpse into the culture and practices of one of the world's most successful fully remote companies. I've collected some of the most impactful passages that resonated with me about company culture, leadership, and...

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Joseph Heller’s Profound Wisdom: The Meaning of “Enough”

A timeless lesson on success, wealth, and contentment Heller's masterpiece, first published in 1961 Joseph Heller wrote the massive bestseller, Catch-22 about World War II. I recommend anyone read the book, but that's not what this story is about. Later in his life, Heller went to a party in the Hamptons. The gathering was filled mostly with young hedge fund managers and Wall Street professionals. While he was at the party, someone came up to...

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Right Place, Wrong Time: A Fatal Accident on Highway 580

A sobering reminder of how quickly life can change on the road The aftermath of the accident on Highway 580 Image found by a coworker on Waze Today I was driving to work and was at the right place at the wrong time. As soon as I merged onto 580 going westbound I saw a Range Rover make a very hard left to avoid the car in front of him which caused it to flip...

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Seth Godin on Compliance vs. Initiative

The Educational Challenge Compliance is simple to measure, simple to test for and simple to teach. Punish non-compliance, reward obedience and repeat. Initiative is very difficult to teach to 28 students in a quiet classroom. It's difficult to brag about in a school board meeting. And it's a huge pain in the neck to do reliably. Schools like teaching compliance. They're pretty good at it. To top it off, until recently the customers of a...

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Who Would Want to be Normal?

Who Would Want to be Normal?

How rejecting conformity can transform your work from ordinary to extraordinary Mini Cooper's "Not Normal" campaign celebrates the power of breaking free from convention Last week, during a meeting about our 2013 initiatives, I found myself expressing frustration with the tendency to do things "the way they've always been done." This led me to share a Mini Cooper advertisement I'd recently discovered—a video that has since become something of an inspiration for our team. In...

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