Daniel Rizea

Engineering Director @ Google, former startup founder, using Twitter as a scratchpad for ideas in Leadership, Business, Career and Life.

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“Success carries the seeds of failure and failure carries the seeds of success.”

Success plays on our ego, failure contributes to humility.

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“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. “

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“We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught”

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Never confuse business with getting things done. Focus on results.

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“There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little” Andy Grove

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You can teach quality if you can teach the process of obtaining quality.

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"Nobody is scared about falling down a cliff, everybody is scared about jumping"

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The next 24 hours
What you can do today to add value to you tomorrow.

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Ambition is when you want to close the gap between what you have and what you want. Entitlement is when you want somebody else to close it.

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Integrity is what you do when nobody is looking.

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The law of diminishing intent. Act as soon as possible.

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"volume negates luck" is something we need to remind ourselves. When we start out we have less skill. What we are producing is not high quality so we feel embarrassed and we tend to stop.

The only way to gain more skill is through sheer volume.

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Core skills: learn how to build, learn how to sell, learn how to lead.

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Excellence is a leadership problem.

Frame of mind: what would somebody that cares do

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Most people let their mindset control their actions. Very few let their actions change their mindset.

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The market beats the manager.

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It matters more the boat you are in, instead of how hard or fast you row.

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In today's world we over solicit our brain and underuse our body.

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As a leader, you need to help people to transition from "letting go" to a "new begging" as soon as possible.

It also applies to yourself

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People don't fear change, they fear loss.

When you do change management ( also to yourself) you need to move from the loss aversion mindset and look at the upside and the future.