Bits & Pieces...

‘Leadership should be defined in terms of the ability to build and maintain a team, and leadership should be evaluated in terms of the performance of the team. ‘And if you define leadership that way, the whole empirical literature then comes together in a way that makes sense.’

Failure is a necessary part of a flourishing innovative ecosystem. Not every idea is destined for greatness. A talented individual working on an idea with fatal flaws by definition isn’t working on an idea with transformational potential. When great talent is stuck working on the wrong things, the ecosystem as a whole suffers. The failure of failure leads to stagnation

Ignorance and indolence is the primary problem. If you take care of the mind, everything else follows.

What I find disconcerting — even boorish — is the number of people who enter into some kind of dialogue on email, and then one day simply stop responding.

Legend has it that Einstein had a sign in his office at Princeton which read, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” The enterprises that we love remain true to an inspired principle, and they consistently act bravely in pursuit and defense of that principle, even at the risk of personal reputations, futures, and the entire enterprise. The long-term payoff of that dynamic isn’t easy to count in the short-term.

They anchor the owned, reinforce the paid and incubate the earned.