If you want to be successful, you have to be your own brand.

People do listen to you in an intense way you never experienced before you became a manager. They attribute meaning—sometimes accurately, sometimes not—to what you say, to the clothes you wear, to the car you drive. In some ways, becoming a boss is like getting arrested. Everything you say or do can and will be used against you.

Dysfunction 2: Fear of conflict. Teams that trust one another can focus on mastering constructive conflict in the pursuit of truth, to discover what’s best for the team.

When we care, we share.

If we want to understand how people feel about taking risks, sharing information, and communicating across boundaries, we have to ask them.

What goes into a pitch? VCs are incented by their LPs to produce outsized returns. So your job as an entrepreneur is simple: Convince a VC that your company has the potential to be one of those outliers. You need to show market sizing, team, product, how you plan to go to market, milestones you plan to reach with funds for this round and plan for next round.

First rule of investing: Don’t lose money. Second rule of investing: Refer to rule number one.

Humans want to belong. When you engage with your ideal audience, those who share your cause and core beliefs, they will share your goal with others, allowing your mission to manifest itself.

When we create from this state, we already feel whole inside, and all of the love we want to feel is what we’re feeling in the moment.

For modern, professional notetaking, a note is a “knowledge building block”—a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.