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“Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.”

Alibaba

Duncan Clark

Human and animal foragers are constantly prioritizing and making effort-allocation decisions, even if only unconsciously. They concentrate first on favorite foods, or ones that yield the highest payoff. If these are unavailable, they shift to less and less preferred foods.

Jared M. Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

1999, W. W. Norton & Company

The power of planning explains the difficulty of valu ing private companies. When a big company makes an offer to acquire a successful startup, it almost always offers too much or too little: founders only sell when they have no more concrete visions for the company, in which case the ac quirer probably overpaid; definite founders with robust plans don't sell, which means the offer wasn't high enough.

Zero to One

Peter Phiel

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