Napoleon liked to say, “Good morale is worth an extra fifty thousand men.” That’s what real camaraderie is: to like and respect the people who passionately share the same sense of mission that you do. Napoleon understood this, and as long as he could keep it going, his armies never lost a battle. Ever. So…
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Why you feel like you should have studied juggling.
Big businesses are insanely complex places. And it’s your job, as a manager in the big business, to manage said complexity. Here’s a fascinating article, written by an executive at Facebook, talking about how her job utterly changed beyond recognition as her team grew. As her team got bigger and bigger, her life became less about doing wonderful…
The importance of earning trust.
Obviously, leaders need to be trusted. Obviously, a leader who is trusted is far more effective than one who is not. But trust is a complex, fragile thing, full of many layers. So one needs to be careful. It’s a lot harder to win back, after you’ve lost it, than to *not* lose it in the first place. And…