Tag: leadership
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The question nobody asked
A used GPS unit took two months to clear Vietnamese customs and became an unplanned case study in accountability: what happens when a system is full of busy, decent people and empty of anyone willing to ask whether the task in front of them is the right one
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Conviction is not a strategy
Every founder you admire was doubted. So was every founder who failed. The leadership skill isn’t believing harder—it’s knowing how to tell which one you are
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Amazon built a leaderboard. The machines did exactly what they were told.
Amazon ranked its engineers by how much AI they used. They gamed it instantly, costs soared, and the leaderboard was quietly switched off. The lesson isn’t about AI — it’s about what happens to people, and budgets, the moment you measure the wrong thing. A Cambridge anthropologist called it in 1997