Sit Quietly and Keep Your Head Down
In school teachers talked and we were suppose to sit & listen. But that is not how children learn. They learn by doing. Students need activity to learn.
Get a Degree and Work Hard to Get Ahead
Education in was reading, memorizing and repeating data. As long as you could repeat the correct answer on a test you were done. Since my 20s have said “Secret to my success is after college was unlearning much of what I was taught.”
Wrong degree, and you will struggle with find work and raises. Hard work is a given. The people who get ahead take responsibility, action and stand out.
Theory X Management
Assumes people have little ambition, avoid work and are selfish. Most people if skilled enough, properly trained and rewarded can perform great work with little supervision. Nordstrom’s, Zappos, and many software & entrepreneurial companies prove how wrong this is.
More Data Solves Everything
“There is a sense that more data will give us greater insight [. . . b]ut the history of science tells us that is not always the case, that in fact very small observations gave us very fundamental insights about the nature of reality.” - Teppo Felin, Professor of Strategy at Oxford’s Said Business School
Small groups of dedicated people change the world. Not data.
To change something, start by saying “Yes I can.”
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