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The lesson is this: don’t recruit to make an investor happy. Recruit to build a great startup.
We’ve failed to recognize that attention is a capacity that must be both intentionally trained and regularly renewed.
…give new leaders difficult immediate challenges with clear sets of expectations and deadlines… You may consider this ‘throwing someone in the deep end to see if he can swim.’ You would be correct. The timing for doing this is perfect at the beginning.
For good health, exercise is non-negotiable, and in a sense it’s a core competency. You definitely can’t outsource it.
…it can be tempting to observe high take-up of a default option and declare victory. Please don’t!
…when it comes to success… you cannot give up. You have to keep going and moving forward, no matter what is happening around you or to you. It’s a form of positive thinking that is very powerful.
Under the right conditions, the problems of commitment, alignment, motivation, and change largely take care of themselves.
Once you’ve cultivated a contact with a new associate or friend, nurture it by pinging. It’s the Miracle-Gro for your blooming garden…
In the short term, the interplay of attention and motivation is crucial to taking care of business, and in the long term, it helps to make you who you are.









