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...talk about how winning strategies aren't transitive. What's the lesson for managers? One mistake managers make is they'll read a book that says: Here are the eight things great managers do. They figure if they just live up to those attributes then they'll succeed. Well, no. It's not the attributes that matter, it's the circumstances - what's going on around them. Almost all successful strategies are circumstance-based, not attribute-based. Boeing, for instance, a very smart company, had outsourced a lot of their products, but then they outsourced the design...
...mean [the tendency of an extreme event to be followed by a less extreme one]. Really high performance is a function of skill and luck. And luck, by definition, is transitory - it comes and goes. The next time you do something, even if you sustain your skill, maybe you'll have a little less luck, and you'll mean revert. When you apply that to the world, you see it everywhere - corporate performance, sports-team performance, individual performance. It gets you to think about how to evaluate outcomes. For example, when people do performance reviews for employees, what are they...
...Obviously, the question is: is there going to be a peak as the weather gets colder?” Rosenthal said. “We’ll just have to wait and see, but we’re monitoring it very closely...
...maybe they'll delete you, Peggy...
...Square is a beautiful space, but they will be making some renovations to it and I expect it’ll all happen very quickly,” Jillson said. “If it isn’t ready by the holidays, we hope it will be ready at least for our Winter Carnival...