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The Messy Middle:
For strong companies, financing is a tactic. For weak companies, financing is a goal.
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The Messy Middle:
While searching for a definitive answer, we often cherry-pick insights from experts or studies that support the view we already hold.
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The Messy Middle:
There’s no shortcut to deep thinking and crunching through scenarios in the basement of your brain.
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The Messy Middle:
With a commitment to suffering, teams are able to tolerate struggle and overcome major psychological challenges like, for example, throwing everything away and trying again.
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The Messy Middle:
You can build a culture that is as much about the experience building the product together as it is about the product itself.
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036 |
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The Messy Middle:
Our aversion to obstacles, setbacks, disagreements, and other forms of resistance is a bit ironic, because this friction is what builds our tolerance for future friction.
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The Messy Middle:
The upheaval of ordinary life causes a group of people to overlook their differences and unite around common causes.
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The Messy Middle:
Bonds forged through adversity are most apparent when calamity strikes. Whether in wartime or after a natural disaster, shared struggles bring people together.
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The Messy Middle:
Whatever you do, don’t fear tension and confrontation. Passivity arrests your development as a team.
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The Messy Middle:
…the possibilities are endless if you just keep going and, at your most difficult and trying moments, push yourself to do your fucking job.
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