IDENTIFY A-PLAYERS USING The screening interview: Sift out the B and C Players quickly using a short phone-based interview. You can potentially weed out 80-90% of the candidates at this phase, thus saving you lots of unnecessary time and energy later on.

Phony deadlines. People don’t believe in arbitrary deadlines dates anymore. It cannot be considered as an enjoyable challenge.

To achieve stillness, we’ll need to focus on three domains, the timeless trinity of mind, body, soul—the head, the heart, the flesh.

A good conversation: You: “What are your big goals and focuses right now?” Products which solve problems on this list are infinitely more likely to get bought.

Our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we know.

That’s another dichotomy: in order to help your team, sometimes you have to hurt them. Just like a doctor performing a surgery. Surgery is a brutal thing: cutting open a body and removing parts of it, then sewing it back together. But in order to save a life, a surgeon has to do just that.

The concept of hyperfocus can be summed up in a single tranquil sentence: keep one important, complex object of attention in your awareness as you work.

Any investment that has become a topic of widespread conversation is likely to be hazardous to your wealth. Invariably, the hottest stocks or funds in one period are the worst performers in the next.

Goals born from inspiration feel light, energizing, and fulfilling. They arise from a place of abundance and joy, where the act of creation itself is the reward.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.