This week I spoke with a leader whose company has recently changed ownership. The executive team is completely new and many are wondering what to expect. As you can imagine, it’s quite a stressful time as everyone is working out who can trust whom. Before we went into details about the people and the situation, I […]
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“The first rule of investment is don’t lose. And the second rule of investment is don’t forget the first rule.” – Warren Buffett Warren Buffett is the fifth richest person on earth and arguably the world’s greatest stock investor. But he’s not perfect. He personally lost around $23 billion in the financial crisis of 2008. His
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“I need you,” Mark Cuban said at their first meeting. “I need you to come in and transform the culture.” After Sports Illustrated exposed a “corrosive workplace culture” at the Dallas Mavericks in early 2018, owner Mark Cuban called Cynt Marshall. Marshall, a 36-year veteran of AT&T, ultimately came out of retirement to take on the
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I walked out of a local chain restaurant on Tuesday with a paper check for forty-one dollars and thirteen cents. That’s right, a paper check. From a restaurant. In 2023. A week earlier, the restaurant’s system was glitching so badly they switched to cash-only payments—but not before double charging our card. It took three visits, two managers,
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We tend to find what we’re looking for. A google search for “trust yourself” returns an avalanche of advice extolling the life-changing virtues of unconditional self-trust. However, a google search for “overconfidence” returns countless cautionary tales of how our cognitive biases are marching us blissfully to our doom. So which is it? Do I trust myself no matter what
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