Bookish AutoDidact @BooksSurrounded

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Rame @rainmakerspod

7 months ago

A month has passed since Bob Kierlin's death. Though he built Fastenal into a $44B market cap giant, he remained an unknown titan of industry—exactly as he preferred. Kierlin's true legacy lies in his approach to company culture. He was one of the few CEOs who genuinely meant it…

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Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian

a year ago

Write it down, then throw it away: Research confirms a simple method for reducing anger A research group in Japan has discovered that writing down one's reaction to a negative incident on a piece of paper and then shredding it or throwing it away reduces feelings of anger. "We…

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Bookish AutoDidact @BooksSurrounded

2 years ago

15 Key Insights from The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh 1. Not staying down is the most formidable competitive advantage of all 2. Culture precedes results and “Winners Act Like Winners (Before They’re Winners) 3. His prime directive was not winning but adhering to…

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Bookish AutoDidact @BooksSurrounded

2 years ago

10 Key Insights from The Checklist Manifesto by @Atul_Gawande 1. There are 2 main reasons for failure, ignorance or ineptitude a) Advancements in science and technology have shifted the balance from ignorance to ineptitude b) Failures of ineptitude are more unforgivable…

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Bookish AutoDidact @BooksSurrounded

2 years ago

10 key insights from The Power of Regret by @DanielPink 1. A No Regrets Life is impossible as a human, regret is not only common but valuable 2. Regret is powered by our human skills of time traveling and storytelling or rewriting stories 3. We compare and then we blame…

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Bookish AutoDidact @BooksSurrounded

2 years ago

6 key principles to make ideas memorable from Made To Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die by Chip and Dan Heath: 1. Simple: Strip an idea to its core for example proverbs like “A bird in hand” or Disney calling its employees “Cast members”. 2. Unexpected: To get…

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Bookish AutoDidact @BooksSurrounded

2 years ago

7 key insights to make better decisions from How to Decide by @AnnieDuke a world class poker player: 1. Resulting: A poor mental shortcut in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision. 2. Hindsight bias is the tendency to believe that an…