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An important duty of any leader is to absorb a large part of that complexity and ambiguity, passing on to the organization a simpler problem—one that is solvable. Many leaders fail badly at this responsibility, announcing ambitious goals without resolving a good chunk of ambiguity about the specific obstacles to be overcome. To take responsibility is more than a willingness to accept the blame. It is setting proximate objectives and handing the organization a problem it can actually solve.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Rumelt, Richard
Cold hard truth:
Entrepreneurship isn’t about trying to change the world with the next scalable idea. It is about starting small, looking for a way to make good money doing something simple, and copying proven strategies that work.
The Sweaty Startup
Nick Huber
The basic idea behind what Airbnb is doing is not new at all. Chesky likes to point out that the only person who didn’t tell him Airbnb was a horrible idea in the beginning was his grandfather, who, when he heard what his grandson was up to, just nodded and said, “Oh, of course. That’s how we used to travel.”
The Airbnb Story
Leigh Gallagher
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