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Life
25 ItemsThink for Yourself
Decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true, and 3) what to do.
Embrace Reality and Deal with It
Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.
Be a Hyperrealist
Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.
Truth is the Essential Foundation
An accurate understanding of reality is the essential foundation for any good outcome.
Be Radically Open-Minded and Transparent
Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning.
Look to Nature
Understand how reality works.
Evolve or Die
Evolving is life's greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.
Own Your Outcomes
You are simultaneously everything and nothing.
Pain + Reflection = Progress
There is no avoiding pain, especially if you're going after ambitious goals.
Weigh Second- and Third-Order Consequences
Don't just look at the immediate results.
Use the 5-Step Process
You can get virtually anything you want, but you can't get everything.
Have Clear Goals
Prioritize: You can have virtually anything you want, but you can't have everything.
Identify and Don't Tolerate Problems
View painful problems as potential improvements that are screaming at you.
Diagnose Problems to Root Causes
Focus on the 'what is' before deciding 'what to do'.
Design a Plan
Think of your plan as being like a movie script.
Push Through to Completion
Great planners who don't execute their plans go nowhere.
Be Radically Open-Minded
Recognize your two barriers: Ego and Blind Spots.
Recognize Your Two Barriers
Understand your ego barrier and your blind spot barrier.
Practice Radical Open-Mindedness
The ability to deal well with 'not knowing' is paramount.
Understand People Are Wired Differently
We are born with attributes that can both help us and hurt us.
Find Out What You and Others Are Like
Introversion vs. Extroversion, Thinking vs. Feeling, etc.
Make Decisions Effectively
Recognize that the biggest threat to good decision making is harmful emotions.
Synthesize the Situation
Determine what is important.
Make Decisions as Expected Value Calculations
Think in probabilities.
Believability Weight Decisions
Triangulate with believable people.
Work
21 ItemsTrust in Radical Truth & Transparency
Realize that you have nothing to fear from knowing the truth.
Be Radically Transparent
Use transparency to help enforce justice.
Cultivate Meaningful Work & Relationships
They are mutually reinforcing.
Create a Culture of Learning from Mistakes
Fail well.
Get and Stay in Sync
Conflicts are essential for great relationships.
Believability Weight Decision Making
Understand the merit of each person's ideas.
Recognize How to Get Beyond Disagreements
Don't let the little things divide you.
The WHO Is More Important than the WHAT
Hire right, because the penalties for hiring wrong are huge.
Hire Right
Match the person to the design.
Pay for the Person, Not the Job
Provide both stability and opportunity.
Constantly Train, Test, Evaluate & Sort People
Understand that you and your people will go through personal evolution.
Evaluate Accurately, Not Kindly
In the end, accuracy and kindness are the same thing.
Manage as Someone Operating a Machine
Look down on your machine and yourself within it from the higher level.
Probe Deep and Hard
Don't assume that people's answers are correct.
Perceive and Don't Tolerate Problems
If you're not worried, you need to worry.
Diagnose Problems to Root Causes
Focus on the 'what is' before deciding 'what to do'.
Design Improvements
Build your machine.
Build the Organization Around Goals
Don't build the organization to fit the people.
Do What You Set Out to Do
Push through to completion.
Use Tools and Protocols
Systemized principles embedded in tools are especially valuable.
Don't Overlook Governance!
Ensure checks and balances.