Daniel Pink recently posted a great 10-minute video about finding your life's purpose with some great suggestions, several of which I haven't heard before:
BLUF/Summary Every growing organization pays a hidden tax that never shows up on a financial statement: the ambiguity tax. It's the cumulative cost of people not knowing who owns what, who can approve what, who to escalate to, and where their job ends and someone else'
BLUF/Summary After two decades of building, advising, and investing in organizations, I've found that every scaling success or failure I've witnessed comes down to the relationship between four things: people, operating system, strategic clarity, and execution discipline. I call this the Keel Framework, and I
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