Shishir Mehrotra argues 99% of advice on major decisions should be ignored
Shishir Mehrotra · 20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda · Sep 25, 2020 · at 6:41
Shishir Mehrotra, founder and CEO of Coda and former executive at YouTube and Microsoft, discusses how leaders should filter advice during critical career inflection points.
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“The truth is that 99% of people that you can talk to will give you advice that you should probably ignore, and I think that's really tricky, especially on the very hardest decisions.”
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