Quotes that hit me

A few quotes from the books I read recently:

Quotes from Extreme ownership:
  • Second place means first looser.
  • It's not only what you preach, it's also what you tolerate as leader.
  • You should explain why , not only what 
  • As a leader, If your team in not following your command, dont blame them for not understanding the big picture, look into yourself and try to communicate better.
  • If your boss isn’t making a decision in timely manner, examine how you can convey better. 

Mindset:
  • I divide world into learners and non learners.
  • You are not a failure until you start to blame. 
  • What we know matters, but who we are matters most. 
Dichotomy of leadership: 
  • There is no growth in comfort zone. 

How yo win friends and influence people- dale carneige

  • If you want to collect honey, don't start by kicking bee hive.
  • People are creatures of logic, not reason.
  • He who treads softly goes far. 
  • To be a leader you have to find rose petals in the field of shit.
  • Trust is like holding a bird in hand, but if you hold too tight it will die, if you leave, it will fly away.
  • Trust is something you build with consistency. 
Hooked:
  • Habit: automatic behaviors triggered by situational cues. Behaviors done with little or no conscious thought.
  • Trigger: internal or external
  • Action: Ease of performing and psychological motivation to do it.
  • Variable reward: create craving
  • Investment: time, data, effort, social capital or money.
  • Habits are LIFO.
  • Whenever new technology suddenly make a behavior easier, new possibilities are born. 

How google works:
  • 70% of time to build product and 30% to shout about it.
  • Products excellence is in iterations.
  • If you can’t tell someone how to think, you have to create an environment where they can think freely.
  • Think 10X not 10%
  • "When considering candidates for a role, favor the ones with a track record of learning new things over the ones with a track record in that particular role."
  • Think of platforms not products. Uber, youtube, google.
  • What is the most exciting thing you do at work.
  • Passionate people don't wear their passion on sleeves, they wear it in the heart.
  • Technology is exponential, learning is linear
  • Learning animals.
  • Growth mindset is about learning targets and goals.
  • Specialist brings inherent bias.
  • Process(how) of decision arrived, when, how it is executed.
  • There are more than 130 million books in the world today.
  • No business runs for ever, some find this chilling. We should find it inspiring.

Hit refresh:
  • Leadership means making choices and rallying teams around those choices.
  • Shared context, shared vision.
  • A leader must see the external opportunities, internal capabilities and culture.
  • We live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you.
  • Why are we here, what do we do next.
  • We cannot fix what we can not measure, we can not prepare what we don't know.
  • Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
  • Culture is complex system made up of individual mindsets.
  • Individual growth is important than bottom line. . 
  • Everyone should grow individually in their roles and lives.
  • You can own customer scenarios, but not code.
  • Where you should apply fixed and mindset(best practice),
Happy Learning !!! 

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