Michael Lissack
3. Welcome difficult assignments. Progress lies in accomplishing difficult work. 4. Once you begin a task, complete it. 5. Never give up. 6. Lead and set an example for your fellow workers. 7. Set goals for yourself to ensure a constant sense of purpose. This will give you perseverance, resourcefulness, and hope. 8. Move with confidence. It gives your work focus and substance. 9. At all times, challenge yourself to think creatively and find new solutions. 10. When confrontation is necessary, don’t shy away from it. Confrontation is the mother of progress and the fertilizer of an aggressive enterprise. If you fear conflict, it will make you timid and irresolute. In today’s most innovative organizations, these principles have evolved further to emphasize collaboration, experimentation, and rapid learning. Companies like Spotify organize around autonomous “squads” focused on specific customer needs, with team members encouraged to identify and combine any building blocks necessary to solve problems. The context deliberately promotes recombination across traditional boundaries. Similarly, organizations like Google have institutionalized recombi- nation through practices like “20% time” (allowing engineers to spend one-fifth of their work time on self-directed projects) and internal innova- tion marketplaces where ideas can find resources and collaborators regard- less of their origin in the organization. These approaches create contexts where building blocks naturally flow to their most valuable combinations. These principles are more in line with the next common sense. They create a context where combining and recombining becomes not just possible but expected.
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