The Wisdom Wall

“If it's possible to be a toxic superstar, if it's possible to be a, you know, a high performer who's selfish, then your definition of performance is too narrow.”

“So I think that what I've tried to shift to is From time management to attention management. To say that the one thing I can really control is what I focus on. And I like to start every week with the people and projects that matter to me. And that way, when I'm focused on, you know, meaningful relationships and trying…”

“federal government investment innovation, in innovation is probably the single most underestimated and underappreciated driver of creativity and of entrepreneurship.”

“And it turned out that it was not so much an advantage of cognitive skills, you know, the, the early edge in math and reading, but rather a lasting gain in character skills. And there was a, a set of, of, of habits that you learned at age five that stuck with you, and then, Actually explain the success that you…”

“I think the difference is that the ones who especially manage to have repeat success and bounce back and forward from failure and keep getting better are the ones who invest their egos in their future growth as opposed to their present comfort.”

“this is one of the things I've come to believe about imposter syndrome is it's often a sign of hidden potential. If other people have higher expectations for you than you do of yourself, it means they've seen a capacity for growth in you. That's not visible to you yet. And if multiple people believe in you, it is time…”

“Well, I think the first thing you do is you disincentivize, uh, the worst taking behaviors. So you make it very clear that people cannot get promoted if they hoard knowledge, if they dump grunt work on others, if they refuse to mentor junior people.”

“if instead you think about making your kids proud, it turns you toward realizing your hidden potential. And it also reminds you that part of that is, you know, is not just the, the success that you achieve, it's also the contributions that you make.”

“We think it's about some costs, but the most powerful drivers are not economic. They're emotional. It's ego and image. I don't want to look like a bad decision maker. I don't want to see a bad decision maker in the mirror.”

“I, I think one of the, the most basic truths of entrepreneurship, which is overlooked by almost every founder I've ever worked with or advised, is that the faster you are to recognize when you're wrong, the faster you can move toward being right.”

“That's a hypothesis. It's a hypothesis. It might be true. It might be false. Let's go and test it. And if it turns out that I'm wrong, I would love your feedback on other ways that we can value agents in a way that the industry just hasn't before. Before. And if you set it up that way, you don't have a mutiny when,…”

“schedule a career checkup, uh, put it in your calendar. Don't do it every day because then you're going to be stuck in analysis paralysis and you will never engage in that job. ... but if, if you do it twice a year, it's a great moment to pause and reflect and ask, Have I reached a learning plateau or a lifestyle…”

“the data would say we should have three to five core values. If you have more than that, then people can't remember them and they don't agree on, you know, what each one means and what the hierarchy of them is.”

“crowdsourcing needs structure. In a, a well-designed innovation tournament, my, my colleagues Christian Tervish and Carl Ulrich have studied this. Um, you need, you need a focus call, right? You want to hear the save energy, reduce waste. The 200 grand is the cap. Um, and then people are much more able to figure out,…”

“You can't change the first score. The best thing to do is to try to ace the second score. Which is to say, I want to try to get an A plus for how well I take the D minus.”

“every once in a while, what I notice is I've had the same idea three or four times, and I didn't even remember it. And when I got excited about the same idea in, you know, different points in my life, uh, it signals to me that there's something interesting and worth exploring there. And I think That, that for me is a…”