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“It sort of is. The books that I'm... Clayton Christensen's stuff about The Innovator's Dilemma is always solid. Books on strategy that I recommend to other people on... There aren't that many. So, I like Playing to Win by Roger Martin. I really recommend other kinds of books, strategy books. It's easy to get a list of strategy books, but I think you should read biographies and histories. I think the book about Steve Jobs is brilliant. I like books about business leaders. I'd recommend Andy Grove's book Only the Paranoid Survive, and a few others, but I recommend that people read more broadly about people, Rockefeller's histories, it's fantastic. The stuff about Rockefeller and how he put together... Rockefeller was a robber baron and he built an empire and all that, you learn that in school, but what you don't learn in school is he dropped the cost of a gallon of kerosene from $1 to 10 cents. That's the robber baron, and he made kerosene so inexpensive that he drove all the little mom and pop proprietors out of business, which is why they hated him. So, he was a vicious competitor, but he dropped the price of something by an order of magnitude, fascinating. So, it's important to understand stories, not just theories, but stories.”
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“I'd recommend Andy Grove's book Only the Paranoid Survive, and a few others, but I recommend that people read more broadly about people, Rockefeller's histories, it's fantastic.”
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“I wrote the crutch because I felt that. The Crux because I felt that that kernel was not sufficiently sharp enough for peak.”
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“I love Twitter. I'm on there all the time. I feel like it's never been better, which is kind of wild.”
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“I think there's this quote in your book that I think is, and this may be paraphrasing, each time you say yes, you risk turning a nascent good strategy into a bad strategy.”
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“I think when people are thinking about power, it may not be clear where that plugs into the diagnosis, the guiding policy and the coherent actions.”
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“I think we're going to help a lot more people face bigger challenges and face them head-on and put together their action agendas and overcome this crux.”
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“If you're missing concrete actions, it's a sign that your strategy is incomplete or bad. There's also I think an element of coherence.”
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“You laid off 80% of people at the company, they changed the name, they changed the domain basically, the algorithms changed. I don't know what is still the same.”
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“I probably bought your book for, I don't know, dozens of people over the years, and it is just so cool to have you on and to get to delve into the stuff that you teach.”
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“The most important intellectual tool we have is to think again, to say, okay, I came up with this diagnosis because I thought this and I thought this.”
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“On the other hand, having a well-established reputation of a certain type can be the opposite of power because people don't expect you to be able to do something new.”
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“I say power because there are different ways in which power is exhibited and you have to focus the power on a target that can actually be affected or achieved.”
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“The politicians right now sort of decided for a few years that the problem is housing's too expensive, we're going to build housing at $700,000 a unit and give it to the all people.”
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“Because there comes a point where everybody who can afford one has got one, and then the new sales drop off.”
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“The United States went to Afghanistan and it wanted to catch Osama bin Laden, but at the same time they didn't want to put an army in the shield to actually catch him because it would the embarrassing to have that many Americans in the field.”
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“We don't know much more than, what, 2,000, 3,000 years ago, which is you put five to eight smart people in a room and you tell them to come up with something.”
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“Well, having more people go to college doesn't solve the problem of 15 year olds not being able to do elementary math.”
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“If you don't have access to other times and other places and other things that have happened, it's very hard to think strategically about the situation you're in because there isn't a science of strategy.”
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“What we called years ago, network effects, where the more users you have, the more useful a product is. So I think the idea of network effects first arose with the telehealth system, which the idea was that you don't want to be connected to a telephone system that only connects to two other people.”
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