Rumsfeld's Rules
- When at the bottom, learn from those at the top
- Who you work with is often more important than where you work
- Chapter 2 is about running good meetings
You Can't Predict the Hero by Joe Grano
- Near the end of chapter 1 he talks about how any success comes with selfish goals with resort to time spent with family vs time spent working...makes me think about priorities and how I should choose family
- Problems require solutions, not scapegoats
- The best way to overcome bureaucratic problems is to keep on excelling and proving yourself
- Be the eternal optimist
- Reconcile yourself to selfishness
- People need to be incentivized effectively
- You can't predict the hero
- People do what you pay them to do (incentives)
- Humanity is more important than hierarchy
- One of the biggest lessons from the 2008 financial crisis is that there is no security without liquidity