To live unlike everyone else, you have to do what everyone else won’t.The amount of money in your life is merely a reflection to the amount of value you have given to others.

Group performance depends on behavior that communicates one powerful overarching idea: We are safe and connected.

Leaders seize the initiative themselves and encourage initiative in others. They want people to speak up, offer suggestions for improvement, and be straightforward about their constructive criticism.

But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.

Blitzscaling drives ‘lightning’ growth by prioritizing speed over efficiency, even in an environment of uncertainty.

Quiet confidence works, too. Introverted individuals like Patrick and myself can be effective leaders. All that you need are conviction, sincerity, and passion.

Transactional trust is “I trust that you will do what you say”. That’s important, but the deeper issue relates to relational trust - which is at the core of the first dysfunction.

Pain is pain. Suffering shouldn’t be ranked, because pain is not a contest.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

The two most important assumptions entrepreneurs make are what I call the value hypothesis and the growth hypothesis. The value hypothesis tests whether a product or service really delivers value to customers once they are using it. For the growth hypothesis, which tests how new customers will discover a product or service, we can do a similar analysis.