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It is about the same question showing up in different places: What's actually happening—and what does that require?
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Candidates have gotten skeptical of employers, and everyone's calling it entitlement. It isn't. It is people doing risk math after watching companies discard loyal employees.
The companies that win will not have the best culture pitch. They will have the clearest terms.
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Headcount grew. So why is the company still slow?
↗The thing that got you here can be the exact thing keeping you from what's next.
↗Doing ten different things to fix the problem feels productive. It rarely is.
↗On the person underneath the work
Not every struggle is a character problem. Some of it is the room you're standing in.
↗Not motivation. Not grit as a personality trait. Something closer to just never stopping.
↗There is a point where working harder is the wrong move. Most people blow past it.
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Chaos & Cadence.
Business is simply where getting the answer wrong becomes expensive fastest.
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