• Trust • Go-To • Exhausting • Essential • Resilience •

Apr 05, 2024

Q1 is just about in the books. Good luck to all making that final push today before the bell rings. I'll let you get back to it. This week's Friday Five

Five posts that touched a nerve this week.

The Friday Five

I trust you to get it done

I don't need to know the details. I hired you to do a job and I trust you to get it done. - Tom Hunt

Trust is so straightforward.

Few posts struck a nerve like this one. Assume good intent. Ask how you can help.

Tom's Original Post Click Here - 94,000+ Reactions, 5,900+ Comments, 3,600+ reposts. The definition of touching a nerve.

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The Go-To Guy

Nick Bloom has earned his reputation as a go-to expert on remote work, with regular appearances in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Charter, among other publications. Bloom’s research on remote working arrangements, which began long before the Covid pandemic, includes WFH Research’s monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA); his steady stream of insights has helped countless leaders make sense of current flexible work trends, the effects of remote and hybrid work, and best practices to make these policies effective - Michelle Peng

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, WFH Research

Nick brings the research data, anecdotal stories, and some hilarious metaphors to the world of work. Add another well-deserved recognition to trophy case.

Excerpt from Charter 30: Nicholas Bloom, by Michelle Peng, Charter -

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Managing well can be exhausting

Every time you hire a really smart person, give them permission. Give them that trust to make changes. That comes with values like change, and nimbleness, but it can be exhausting - Dominic Price

Managing to better outcomes, isn't managing easier. To Dom's point, it's harder. But the results are worth the effort.

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Essential Questions

They want to discuss the essential questions like 'How do we govern artificial intelligence?' Should governments take action? Should they not take action? Should it be liberal or open or governed or closed or what? Marten Mickos

Open Source, Radical Transparency, The Essential Questions, Winning, Pooled Defense, Learning, Leading, and staying Curious.

What a treat to welcome Marten Mickos to Turn the Lens.

Full-Length Interview Marten Mickos: Curiosity, Learning, Hackers, Transparency | Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick- YouTube - https://lnkd.in/djqvh3Y5 - Spotify - https://lnkd.in/da_My5ke - Transcript and show notes - https://lnkd.in/deFDUqA5 - or wherever you podcast

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Resilience Matters in Success

People with high expectations have low resilience - and Resiliance is important to success - I don't know how to teach it, I hope pain and suffering happens to you - Jensen Huang

Resilience matters in success.

I don't know to teach it except I hope suffering happens to you. I use the phrase 'pain and suffering' with great glee. You want to refine the character of the company, you want greatness, greatness comes from character, and character comes from those that have suffered - Jensen Huang

We want to create positive environments and learning situations. Make it fun, interesting, rewarding, joyful, which it can be. But some lessons learned the hard way are the lessons that shape and form us. Touch the stove once, never touch it again.

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