Dinner with Allison

  • executive coaching is useful for helping you identify your strengths and for determining the kind of executive you are going to be
    • a cheaper way is to serve on other boards
  • knowledge acquisition is a good thing
    • be wary of needing to do a deep dive into every single piece of data yourself, learn instead to rely on others for the analysis
    • don’t fall into the trap of requiring too much evidences before making any single decision – that is procrastination
    • read widely and developed deep critical thinking
  • hyper communication is the most effective way to curtail the Silo effect commonly observed in companies
    • the listening and data gathering aspects of it
  • be a collector of people
    • each profile will satisfy specific needs

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