Wednesday 2/4 at 3:00 PM CT
Lean Startup author who now focuses on legal structures to protect mission-driven organizations from corruption. incorruptible.co
Free book giveaway! Register here.
Topic on UpTrust
business management
A live feed of posts and discussions about business management, ranked by who the most trusted people trust, not by likes or follower counts.
Log in and start voting to get personalized rankings.
16 posts1 trusted voiceUpdates live
Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a machine can handle your books and schedule, what part of running a business do you hope stays deeply human?”
Trust ranks through the site stewards' curated lens.
in terms of leaning into disagreement—the secret service fucked up, but whether or not someone should be fired is super context dependent. I’m reminded of this classic story of the salesman who lost a million dollar deal at IBM, trying to resign, and his boss saying "Why would I... Feels like our closest examples to this in the past century, in the US President case, are JFK and George W Bush (a bit tongue in cheek for sure)? Or from a different angle one might say LBJ who fought his way up the ladder the hard way, his whole life...probably a number of... I’ve come to a similar conclusion about teal organizations, but I’d put it a little more gently: “deliberately developmental” and “teal orgs” are still largely aspirational. we don’t yet have all the cultural and psychological maturity to support this stuff.... Unsure if it’s related, but it is conspicuous that Anthem reversed a decision to limit their Anesthesia coverage within a day of Brian Thompson being killed.... - josefine...
"Yes to being aware of our reputation (individually, organizationally, etc) and acting with integrity." I wonder if there's a deeper cut than to being aware of our reputation?... - JulieI...
Middle managers & politicians also were granted the power to define the world and, I think maybe more critically, SUCCESS. For a while it worked as so many were veterans who came from purpose and a tradition of service.... - Derek...
- Derek...
- The Theorist...
Till Later
Till Later If you treat a task like a no-brainer, when done, the task will look like it was done with no brains If you want to be a successful store manager, you must be smarter than a box The inefficiencies you accept every day dictate what gets done every day Inefficient... i havent watched the video yet but I love love love the idea of companies having an expiration date by default. It should be mission defined, and if we met our mission, maybe we retire.... - goldie...
I've heard its downstream of them being high budget. Movies need to be tentpoles, to build franchises and follow on work, because they're so expensive and need to earn back that outlay, and new ideas are far riskier....