The MarginS

Marginal notes, doodles and thoughts that come to mind when I read things - and I like to read things.

The catch? Capture each idea inside an Instagram square. 

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“The truth is that a single individual makes a decision in a single moment. Contrary to some popular notions of leadership, groups do not make decisions” (The Primes - McGoff). This idea continues to stick in my head... we’re fooling ourselves if we think that groups can decide something together.
“Decisions are ‘irrevocable allocations of resources’” (The Primes - McGoff). Currently, this is my favourite definition for decisions.
“Teams are groups in which the feeling is one-for-all-and-all-for-one... Teams are a luxury” (The Primes - McGoff). Never underestimate a group that feels like a team.
Working ON your business is about transforming the way of working - it’s about finding new paths. Working IN your business is about operating the systems and solving the problems you already know about. Leaders should spend more time ON than IN (The Primes - McGoff).
I’m six pages in the book and I read, “Leading is ambiguous and offers terrific opportunity to look bad in front of others” (The Primes - McGoff). I think I picked a good one.