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Where your People once asked, “Why am I doing this?” they can now begin to understand why it matters to the business. If you frame it in the right way, you can help them to see why it also matters to them as individuals; how reaching that goal is not only good for the business but good for them. I hope that you are beginning to see how Numbers have a far greater potential than many CEOs realize.

A CEO Only Does Three Things

Trey Taylor

Many books have been written about improving one’s ability to discern well. Here is a distillation of some key points: (1) pay attention to the interior movements of the heart when contemplating different desires—which give a fleeting feeling of satisfaction and which give satisfaction that endures? (2) ask yourself which desire is more generous and loving; (3) put yourself on your deathbed in your mind’s eye and ask yourself which desire you would be more at peace with having followed; (4) finally, and most importantly, ask yourself where a given desire comes from.

Wanting

Luke Burgis

While not having significant public speaking experience, I do hold a black belt in chutzpah, and I immediately considered Demosthenes and Cicero1 as role models and anticipated trying to earn a compliment like Cicero gave when asked which was his favorite among the orations of Demosthenes. Cicero replied, “The longest one.”

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, John Collison, and Warren Buffett

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