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A, B, and C Players When a company fails to pay attention to performance and attitude, good employees and mediocre employees may coexist for months or years without management taking action. This is a lose-lose situation that can stifle the good employee and hurt the organization, because a mediocre teammate can drag down team spirit. To make sure that doesn’t happen, my companies use three different techniques to evaluate talent and elevate the caliber of the organization.
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Brad Jacobs
Here’s a simple breathing exercise called “box breathing.” This type of breathing is a way to tell your nervous system, “We’re safe. All is well.” Inhale for four seconds; hold it for four seconds; exhale for four seconds; hold for four seconds; repeat for a few minutes until you feel your body start to lose the edge.
Secure Love
Julie Menanno
It turns out that only two companies in the Dow derive the bulk of their competitive advantage from the network effect—Amex and Microsoft. We’ve already talked about Amex’s moat, and the way the network effect helps Microsoft is fairly easy to understand as well. Lots of people use Word, Office, and Windows because, well—lots of people use Word, Office, and Windows.
The Little Book That Builds Wealth
Pat Dorsey
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