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:

Dichotomy of leadership:

How yo win friends and influence people- dale carneige

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 !!!

Surya Prakash Jayanti