#136 The leader's attitude
Happy Sunday, everyone.
In a recent interview, I heard Jocko Willink diving into a few stories that
influenced his best-selling book, Extreme Ownership. If you haven’t read it, the
overall premise is — in any organization or on any team, all responsibility for
success and failure resides in the leader.
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#135 The work mindsets
Happy Sunday, everyone.
In addition to the “design + build + run” mission component of my boys’ robotics
team, there is also an innovation project assignment. Its requirements include
developing a “desirability, feasibility, viability” style presentation and
creating a prototype for their innovation.
At last week’s meeting, the team of four
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#134 The integrity pillar
Happy Sunday, everyone.
We still have pretty young kids by most standards. However, as they’ve matured,
my wife and I have introduced what we call “family pillars”. These are the
foundational markers for what our family name, their name, stands for.
Similarly, each of Calm Capital’s companies has
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#133 The listening house
Happy Sunday, everyone.
I’ve written a good bit about listening over the years.
Few developed skills are as impactful as listening. Becoming good at it makes
you a better spouse, parent, child, business person, leader, … the list goes on.
So when Song Exploder host, Hrishikesh Hirway, released his TED
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