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klochner
on Dec 4, 2012
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Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of ...
What happens when you need someone else to take an action before you can move forward? It's like blocking IO.
chris_mahan
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You do it, and if someone complains, you say you had to get this done in order to continue work. If it's something "out of your area" you treat it as a bug and you make a workaround. Remember: businesses only reward achievement.
stephengillie
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Remember: businesses only reward achievement.
Which is why
failing upward
is such an unsuccessful career strategy. I'm with Dogbert on this one.
stephengillie
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This is why it's important to have a todo list with more than one spot, or why it's important to keep another task in the back of one's head.
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