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How to Be a Good Listener
Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have.
Yet few of us know how to do it; not because we are evil, but because no one has taught us how and – on a related point – few have listened sufficiently well to us. So we come to social life greedy to speak rather than listen, hungry to meet others, but reluctant to hear them. Friendship degenerates into a socialised egoism.
On Being Nice
The School of Life
Managers of one
We want each team member to be a manager of one who doesn't need daily check-ins to achieve their goals.
GitLab Values
about.gitlab.com
Now, if the eyes of some shareowners dutifully reading this letter are by this point glazing over, I will awaken you by pointing out that, in my opinion, these techniques are not idly pursued—they lead directly to free cash flow.
Invent and Wander
Walter Isaacson and Jeff Bezos
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