1.乐观、执着、自信、原始的动力和人际关系是事情开始的关键。

2.有凝聚力的团队，冷静和紧迫的合理搭配，以及非凡的投入是成事的关键。长期的方向目标是稀缺的；无需过分担心短期内其他人的看法，随着时间的推移，这会变得更容易。

3.对于团队而言，完成一项真正重要的艰巨任务，比起做一些并不那么重要的简单工作要更有意义；大胆的想法能够激发斗志。

4.激励机制的效果有如超能力，在设定时需经过慎重考虑。

5.把你的资源集中在少数有着高度信念的目标上，实际上可以剔除掉的东西多于你的想象。

6.沟通要清晰简洁。

7.每当你看到官僚主义和废话时，就与之斗争，也要让其他人参与斗争。不要让组织架构妨碍人们高效地协同工作。

8.结果才是最重要的；好过程不是坏结果的遮羞布。

9.花更多的时间在招聘上。在高潜力、成长快的人身上冒险。除了智力之外，除了智力外，还要寻找他们实际完成任务的证据。

10.超级明星实际比表面更有价值；但评价员工时，需要考虑他们对组织整体绩效的真正影响。

11.迅速迭代能可以弥补许多不足；通常情况下，如果你能迅速调整，即使犯下错误也无所谓。计划应以十年为周期，执行则应以周来衡量。

12.不要违背商业上的基本规律。

13.灵感易逝，人生苦短。不行动是一种既隐而又致命的风险。 14.规模往往具有令人惊讶的涌现特性。

15.借助复合增长的力量；尤其是，你会想要创建一个随着规模扩大而能够获得增长优势的企业。

16.站起来继续前行。

17.与优秀的人共事是人生中最美好的部分之一。

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

1. Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.


2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time.


3. It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.


4. Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.


5. Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think.


6. Communicate clearly and concisely.


7. Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.


8. Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.


9. Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence.


10. Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization.


11. Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.


12. Don’t fight the business equivalent of the laws of physics.


13. Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.


14. Scale often has surprising emergent properties.


15. Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.


16. Get back up and keep going.


17. Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.

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