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Winston Weinberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1528 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Because what you do is you take the stuff that isn't really a huge problem and you just put that somewhere else, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And so all you're paying attention to are the problems.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And if you do that over time, you're way less stressed.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Because you might be stressed about one thing, but it's, again, not as thrashy.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

You aren't poking as much because you're trying to fix the same thing.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And you don't feel like there's a thousand things that are going wrong.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

You feel like there's one thing that is terminal, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

But you can just focus on how do you incrementally improve that terminal issue.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Yeah.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

The best way to do this is hiring.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

There's no other way to do it.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

It is hiring and culture.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And so what you need to do is hire a very good team that all feels the same way you do.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And what your job then is, is how do you instill a sense of urgency into the rest of that team?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And then those leaders will instill it into their team.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And then those leaders will instill it into their team, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

So it's more how do you create a culture and a hiring process that hires and promotes people that have a sense of urgency and can instill that into the rest of folks because that will scale.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

If it's just you poking, you're just going to cause so much thrash that the company is not going to move in a good direction.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Right now, when I'm hiring executives, the thing I look for the most is they have to believe the same thing that I believe, which is the next year or two years are basically going to define the companies that are successful for the next decade probably, right, if not more.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

you have to be able to think about kind of all of your decisions is that way, right?