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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
5h ago“When a business runs smoothly, who usually gets the credit, and is that fair?”
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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.... - 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...
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Can you trust an AI agent to act for you?: The Story
The intern who never sleeps In the spring of 2025, a logistics manager handed an AI agent her calendar, her inbox, and a company card and told it to plan the quarterly offsite.... - 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.... Perhaps unsurprisingly, I think you're both right: Too much of a certain kind of 1st tier, and not enough of a different kind of first tiers. I want to sum it up as "fucked up something in the first tier." Not being intimate with the culture or having read the anti-dalio book,... Just to try on a frame, I might claim that the issue with Dalio / Teal-orgs-in-general isn't too much first tier, but rather not enough first tier? Like, how does magenta live in Bridgewater?... - 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.... I would like to understand better the logic of paying a CEO over $10 million annually...or even much smaller amounts than that-- like probably $3 million is my threshold for 🤔hmmm what's going on here. So is this coming from some kind of "limiting belief" around money?...