leadership

6 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 5, 2017 by David "Bull" Gurfein · across every show →

Everything said about leadership, oldest first

Jun 5, 2017 negative
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Gurfein: Leaders who step in to solve tasks compromise organizational oversight
“Too many times we, if we're good leaders, or we perceive ourselves as good leaders, like, I will save the day, and we end up detracting from what our responsibility is, which is the oversight of the organization, because we get focused on this individual task …”
David "Bull" Gurfein Jun 5, 2017 ▶ 1:01:30 David "Bull" Gurfein - Interdisciplinary Lessons from the Marines (Capital Allocators, EP.10)
Jun 5, 2017 negative
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Gurfein: 99% of workplace failures stem from poor leadership, not bad employees
“I would say 99% of the time we don't have bad employees. We have horrible leadership and we don't supervise and we don't provide support.”
David "Bull" Gurfein Jun 5, 2017 ▶ 21:20 David "Bull" Gurfein - Interdisciplinary Lessons from the Marines (Capital Allocators, EP.10)
Apr 1, 2019 bearish
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Ariely: Widening gap between leadership and employee sentiment signals shorting opportunity
“I will tell you that we find that in every company, when the gap between how Leadership feels about the company and how the rank and file employees feel about the company. As this gap grows, it's a good sign to short the stock.”
Dan Ariely Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 45:16 Dan Ariely – Investing in Irrationality (Capital Allocators, EP.93)
Nov 16, 2020 neutral
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Parrish: Technical specialization fails when managing complex human behavioral problems
“When you get out of work and you get promoted and you start doing things, those skills quickly fall away. I can't solve people problems with computer science as much as I would have loved to some days, right? Like computers, you give it the same instructions. …”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 14:25 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
Oct 17, 2022
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Griffith: Excessive loyalty to an individual becomes disloyalty to the team
“One of the things I've learned is if you're overly, in the professional context, if you're overly loyal to an individual and give them too many chances, eventually you're disloyal to the team. And ultimately your loyalty is to the firm and to your, to a fund o…”
Reade Griffith Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 59:40 Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
May 25, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Kim: Overidentifying as a master fundraiser limited his broader leadership potential
“At some level, I think I've underperformed my true potential. I got so attached to the sales persona and being this super fundraiser. I raised a lot of money in my career. I'm proud of it, but I got really attached to that persona, that identity. When there ar…”
John Kim (Kimmer) May 25, 2026 ▶ 1:12:25 Fundraising Mastery: The Tao of Kimmer – John Kim (EP.503)
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