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I recently just read Ben Horowitz’s 2nd book: What you do is who you are: How to create your business culture.
This post is written as my study notes to understand and apply what’s suggested in this book. So these notes shouldn’t be taken as a literal summary of Ben’s book, but my interpretations of his, as I learn.
Now, let’s get started.
Culture is a set of shared values. Shared by all of the staff in a company.
As the leader, if you don’t make them explicit, your employees wouldn’t know them all.
And more insidiously, each will understand the company’s culture in a different way. And then, they’d act accordingly.
That’s a mess.
Continue reading Building a company’s culture – Lessons from “What do you is who you are”
Below is a summary of the fundamental approaches to second / foreign language acquisition. More will be added as discovered.
(If you find a popular approach that hasn’t been included, please let me know in the comment)
Note: L1: a person’s first (native) language; L2: the second / foreign language
2016 is coming to an end and as usual, I think I should write some thing as I reflect over my actions and results of 2016.
But that would be too broad a topic to write about and would make this post unfocused. So instead, I’d share with you about one of the most important points I’ve learned over the past year about the growth rate of entrepreneurs.
I’ve been a book enthusiast for a long time and that means I’ve read, say, for average 7 books a year for the past 10 years or so. Before doing startups, most of the books I read are about personal development and for the past 3 years or so, they’re all about business and startups.
7 books a year used to seem like a big deal for me. I’m an action-all-the-time person so to finish a book it would spread over a few weeks. And from time to time, I got distracted by other things and this prolonged the reading time even more.
Then one day I got curious as to how many books other entrepreneurs read. And here is a startling stats:
Continue reading Your business and your growth as an entrepreneur
2015 was a rather tumultuous and challenging year for me. But since hardship and failures are necessary stepping stones of success, 2015 could have been seen as a year packed full of lessons.
As the year is closing and a new year 2016 is about to start, I’d like to share some important points that have significantly affected the way I look at the world in 2015.
Let’s start with Perspective
When someone says how one interprets things depend on one’s perspective, I used to take it as, in a nutshell, different situations bring different interpretations of the same event.
The life story of Perelman:
has left me with some realizations that I think you may find useful or otherwise thought-provoking.
If you don’t know about him, you can read my summary about Perelman story here.
Below are the main lessons I’ve learned:
