William McRaven is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he was the chancellor of The University of Texas System. In 2014, as part of his commencement address to 8,000 University of Texas undergraduates, […]
Monthly Archives: April 2024
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On Kindness… A few years back, I found myself at a burger bar in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where my flight to SFO had been delayed by a few hours, threatening my connection back to Singapore. Not in the best of moods, I ordered a cheeseburger and a beer as solace. The burger arrived, then after […]
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Values Question #1 You’re running a year-long game development project, with dozens of team members working both in the office and remotely, some in other countries. You’re into the final months and need additional help on the artwork in order to finish in time. You get the budget and start recruiting for a new artist. […]
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Quote to Ponder: The late Clayton Christensen, best-selling author and Harvard professor, wrote one of my top ten Founders Library books: “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” which The Economist called one of the six most important business books ever written. An influential business innovation theorist, lifelong learner and prolific author, in 2012 Professor Christensen published “How Will […]
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“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity…one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.” So said Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the prolific Hungarian-American psychologist who, among other things, recognized and named the […]