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He tells me that for the last few years my mind has been a swamp—stagnant, fetid, seeping in every direction. Now it’s time for my mind to be a river—raging, channeled, and therefore pure. I like it. I tell him I’ll try to keep this image in mind. He talks and talks, and as long as he’s talking, I’m OK. I’m in control. His advice feels like an oxygen cup on my mouth.
she really gave herself up, she sacrificed herself. She knew how to serve a scene or another person in the scene just so devotedly. She really had the most of that of anyone. As a result, because she made other people look good, she herself looked fantastic.
Live From New York
James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales
Sample FAQs An FAQ is a good way to tee up issues for discussion or highlight important points or risks in your argument. Such FAQs allow the author to take control over the discussion and steer it to productive areas for dialogue. An honest, objective, and nonemotional tone tends to work best when answering these questions. There’s no point in sugarcoating things, and it helps to state the tough issues up front. Amazon’s Earn Trust leadership principle states, “Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.” Here are some FAQs that we have found useful: What were the biggest mistakes we have made last period, and what have we learned from them? What are the key inputs for this business? What is the single biggest thing we can do to move the needle in this business, and how will we organize to do just that? What are the top reasons we should not do what we’re proposing today? When push comes to shove, what are the things we won’t compromise on? What’s hard about the problem we are trying to solve? If our team had X more people or Y more dollars, how would we deploy those resources? What are the top three new initiatives, products, or experiments our team has launched in the past X months, and what did we learn from them? What dependencies do we have in our area today over which we wish we had control?
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
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