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[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

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[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

When hiring people; hire people you really want to invest in.

Not want them to succeed for you but want them to succeed for them and you would go out of your way to invest in them to make that happen.

Then you have something special.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

One huge mistake that many managers make is to tell a senior member of their team:

“<XYZ> is entirely your decision. I am here to serve you. I will defer to whatever your decision is here.”

This happens at all levels e.g. a Founder/CEO delegating “product strategy” to the CPO.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

There's no such thing as "the real you": only the the you you have consistently accepted and acknowledged.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

"The world looks one way in peacetime but very different when you must fight for your life every day." - @bhorowitz

The right person for the job 3 years ago isn't the right person for the job today.

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

Directions are instructions given to explain HOW.
Direction is a vision offered to explain WHY.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

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[Cory Dobbin @CoryOnBrand]

Something I learned pretty early on in my career:

It's okay to not be good at everything. If you want to win in a senior role, do more of what you're really good at. Acknowledge what you're bad at, and have someone who is better than you handle those things.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

The greatest secret to greatness is that it only takes one thing: repetition.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

After coaching a lot of very successful people, here's an unsexy truth:

A lot of success is learning to grind when it's boring.

Staying engaged, working, and seeing it through when it's "boring" is a skill. If you expect all building to be exciting, you'll never make it.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

You are the stories you tell yourself. Tell better stories. Watch everything change.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The person who loves to climb is going to go so much higher than the person who just loves the view from the summit.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

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[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

[Bad Manager 🦔 @_badmanager]

Act like the thing you want the most is 50 "no's" away. Do everything you can to get those "no's" as quickly as possible.

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

Consistency beats ability

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

When someone is very dogmatic about a specific title they want coming into a role, 90% of the time, it hasn’t worked out in my experience.

That sign for me is always a red flag.