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Peacetime CEO knows that proper protocol leads to winning. Wartime CEO violates protocol in order to win. Peacetime CEO focuses on the big picture and empowers her people to make detailed decisions. Wartime CEO cares about a speck of dust on a gnat’s ass if it interferes with the prime directive. Peacetime CEO builds scalable, high-volume recruiting machines. Wartime CEO does that, but also builds HR organizations that can execute layoffs. Peacetime CEO spends time defining the culture. Wartime CEO lets the war define the culture. Peacetime CEO always has a contingency plan. Wartime CEO knows that sometimes you gotta roll a hard six. Peacetime CEO knows what to do with a big advantage. Wartime CEO is paranoid. Peacetime CEO strives not to use profanity. Wartime CEO sometimes uses profanity purposefully. Peacetime CEO thinks of the competition as other ships in a big ocean that may never engage. Wartime CEO thinks the competition is sneaking into her house and trying t...

The New One Minute Manager ,  by  Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D.   (Author),  Spencer Johnson M.D.   (Author) Traditional manager: Bottom-line, stay on top of the situation, hard-nosed. realistic, and profit-minded. Result focused - Autocratic People focused - Democratic The top-down approach worked in the past today it doesn't inspire people or stifle innovation In today's world customer demands quicker service and better products and that's why we need everyone to contribute How to lead with collaboration: Hybrid of people-focus and results-focused approach: Meets once a week. Checks the work done followed by feedback. What's next and their plans and strategies. We take collective decisions and it's binding on everybody. #1 Goals Write and review the goals #2 Praise #3 Re-Directs

How to Read a Book a Day | Jordan Harry  Bad habits: Subvocalization: Avg talking speed is 200 wpm so the reading speed can be 250 wpm. Use tongue up technique and optimized your environment i.e. not too loud or not too quiet. Regression: Lack of concentration. You need to start with the right questions to find the right information when reading. Use gliding don't read the previous sentence Fixation:  How to read a book a day: Front and back cover: 80% of book value can be found in 20% of the pages. Table of contents Skim: 10 seconds per page find the chapters and sub-heading and diagrams that stick out for you Scan: 30 seconds per page Speed Read: Bouncing, Gliding technique

If you have not tested your APIs against a vulnerability type, it is least likely you're protected against the exploit. If you don't understand a vulnerability type, it is least likely you'll be able to mitigate it when it's exploited. If you're not aware of a vulnerability, it doesn't mean you don't have one.

Law No. 1: If there is a vulnerability, it will be exploited. Law No. 2: Everything is vulnerable in some way. Law No. 3: Humans trusts even when they shouldn't. Law No. 4: With innovation comes the opportunity for exploitation. Law No. 5: When in doubt, see Law No. 1.    Most important 3 laws: With innovation comes the opportunity for exploitation. Everything is vulnerable in some way. If there is a vulnerability, it will be exploited.

Avatar : Have a signal on an information radar that indicates who is working on what. Backlog : Enumerate all work to be done in the form of an ordered list. Controlled Failure : Terminate a project once it becomes clear that it is not viable. Accrued value is retained and project resources are freed for other activities Done : Ensure all work is completed to a known standard, so misunderstanding is avoided and rework minimized. Increment : Deliver a potentially releasable piece of work early and often. Forecast : Predict completion time based on the estimated size of a backlog and a known velocity Information Radiator : Make the status of a team and its work immediately apparent Inspect & Adapt : Teams delivering value should be able to critique and improve their own working practices. Kanban Switch : Have an appropriate agile way of working at each of three enterprise levels. Iterate : Minimize stock-on-hand so as to deliver value more quickly and reduce wast...

The Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling (Book Summary) May 14, 2018   jdonovan Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success by Belfort, Jordan 1 CRACKING THE CODE FOR SALES AND INFLUENCE In every sale, three core elements, known as The Three Tens, must line up in any prospect’s mind before you have a shot at closing them. Logically and emotionally, on a certainty scale from one to ten, your prospect must: trust your product to fulfill their needs at a cost-benefit ratio that is unequivocally a great deal trust and connect with you as an expert in your field who put’s your customers’ needs first trust and connect with your company People don’t buy on logic; they buy on emotion and then justify their decision with logic. In terms of the split between logic and emotion, you’re always going to build airtight logical cases first and airtight emotional cases second. Why? Quite simply, by making the airtight lo...