Charlie Munger: Bad Morals Drive Out The Good
Charlie Munger on applying Gresham’s Law to lending. The idiotic ideas are all from the social science department and I would put economics in the social sciences department although it has some …
Charlie Munger on applying Gresham’s Law to lending. The idiotic ideas are all from the social science department and I would put economics in the social sciences department although it has some …
It is a fundamental law of nature that to evolve one has to push one’s limits, which is painful, in order to gain strength—whether it’s in the form of lifting weights, facing problems head-on, or in …
Greg McKeown explains why successful people don’t become very successful in The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very …
What they don’t seem to teach you in business school is that “the five forces” and “the seven Cs” and every other generic framework for problem solving are heuristics: they can lead you to solutions, …
In an effort to improve performance we often turn to the simple answer of trying to hire a star from another organization. This sounds like a great idea, is hard to argue with, and offers the promise …
In their 1978 paper Performance Sampling in Social Matches, researchers March and March discussed the implications of performance sampling for understanding careers in organizations. They came to some …
I enjoyed reading Dinosaur Brains: Dealing with All Those Impossible People at Work by Albert Bernstein. Near the end of the book, Bernstein playfully illuminates how too many decisions get made. Take …
Paying attention to what your customers and clients see can be a very effective way to increase your influence and, subsequently, your business. Steve Martin, co-author of Yes! 50 Secrets from the …