Admired Leadership

“One of the things that they do is they rely on a target proposal decision that basically they put out there, but they go out of their way to say, here's the target, and now they get people to weigh in against that target, and that saves tremendous amounts of t…”

“And that by being a great fan of other people, and showing your fan-ness, and asking yourself the question in almost every context, what would a fan do here? What would somebody who's your fan do? That becomes a very different thing because you can work on you…”

“What you learn really quickly is that being able to size people up and adapt to them in an ongoing flow of interaction is almost impossible. So you've got your own goals. You've got other competing things going on. You've got the noise of the context. It's ver…”

“We come at this thing behaviorally, best practice, which is fairly rare in the marketplace.”

“By the way, Alex is entirely confidential. We can't see your questions and answers. We do a couple of quality checks randomly, but other than that, it's just like a coach. It's totally confidential.”

“What you have to do is pick a behavior that you're going to work on. Just one. Not 20.”

“Alex operates from Anthropics Claude as a base, but it has no access to the internet. It only answers from our data, and we have a couple million words in it.”

“Because if you do them for effect, you won't keep them up. You'll only do them in some situations. You won't get very skillful at them. As soon as they don't work on somebody, you'll give them up. You got to pick the behavior that you believe in that represent…”