Henry Mintzberg
- In between macro and micro are organizations which are the intermediaries….
- Personal (founded around a personality), program (hierarchy, structure, etc.), professional (highly skilled), and project (catering, football as mixed between program, professional, and project). Four types of organizations
- “You don’t plan strategy, you learn strategy and then program consequences of what you learn”
- Networks aren’t community try to get your network to paint your house
Bent Flyvbjerg has a sobering statistic to share: 99.5% of major projects fail to deliver their targeted results on time and on budget. His new book How Big Things Get Done, coauthored with Dan Gardner,
Jonah Berger magic words
Peter Drucker
- 5 questions: what is your mission / who do we serve and not /
Thales Teixeira
- Similar to what Grant tells us about looking at MLKJ when he delivers I am a dream, you can’t look at Uber today and seek to emulate them. The difference in time will skew your approach
- Uber would receive a call and try and patch you to a driver
- BnB was renting a blow up mattress on a floor and someone would make you a meal
- His point is somewhat profound and that is you should be surprised by your first customers, their acquisition of you might be more an accident than anything. Are you acquiring you for the reason you think they are? Probably not
- So in both Uber and BnB cases