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Peter Abdaal

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Joined January 2011
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Better to start slow than never to start.
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Company value: transparency. Team's main source of information: a screenshot someone forwarded from another group chat.
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11 SENTENCES THAT SHOW YOU ARE HARD TO DISTRACT: 1. Not now.
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11. Let me stay with this.
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The task you can finish in ten minutes might still be worth teaching.
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Especially if you've been finishing it every day for two years.
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Teaching takes longer today. Doing it yourself keeps charging you tomorrow.
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Build a team where “I need help” gets a useful response before it becomes “we missed the deadline.”
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What did your best hire teach you to look for in the next one?
Meeting tip: know what decision the room needs to make.
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A full calendar can hide a lot of decisions nobody has made.
If you changed the deadline, own the change.
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Your team shouldn't carry the blame for missing the date you replaced yesterday.
Sometimes the business needs fewer priorities before it needs more people.
Hiring tip: ask about a mistake, then listen for what changed afterward.
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A polished apology tells you less than a specific change in behavior.
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Running a business includes a lot of work that never makes it into the announcement.
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Growth has a way of finding the handover everyone hoped would hold together.
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Delegation tip: leave room for a method you wouldn't have chosen.
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Hiring people to imitate you puts a ceiling on what they can add.
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