Here’s the scenario: Management starts to lose control over a company’s work. Teams are operating without full context or feedback loops. Product becomes highly reactive. HR’s busy and top performers are looking to jump ship. Those who stay start to complain about the lack of direction. Nearly all technology companies — from small startups to big successes — have experienced at least one of these symptoms.
Take it from OpenTable CEO Christa Quarles. Over her career, she’s become virtually clairvoyant when it comes to identifying when, how and where companies are about to break — and early enough to save the day. Without question, Quarles comes from resilient stock. She grew up with six siblings, her husband’s a former Navy Seal, and four months after joining OpenTable as its CFO, she was named interim CEO and elevated to permanent CEO two months later.
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Meeka chilling in the sun. She's going to love her first Fall.
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At the same time every week, we return to the same spot on the couch, turn on our TV and turn off our brains in order to get sucked into the lives of a bunch of human beings pretending to be other human beings living in a more exciting time and place and story (and sometimes universe) than...
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“Our phrase is: We pack as much value into every price point, but it’s always aspirational...”
Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and CEO of car-and-driver rental company Uber about their new office space.
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The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect. One is good at building products and the other is good at selling them.
- Naval Ravikant
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Our new baby with my baby.
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Paiute Baby. (1906) Andrew Alexander Forbes, photographer
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For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing," he said. "I was young once, and I said, 'That's beautiful and I want that.' Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great -- well, that's absolutely torturous."
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Looks tasty!
Rump roast with carrot, onion, mushroom and red potatoes. Soaked in garlic buttermilk gravy.
This is a great meal for 25 people, especially during the winter season when one is in need of a good comfort food fix or you are cookin’ for the holidays.
Ingredients:
Beef Rump: 10 lbs. (preferably grass fed beef).
Red Potatoes: 1 bag
Sweet Onions: 2 large
Organic Carrots: 1 bunch.
Organic White Mushrooms: 36 oz.
Buttermilk: 24 oz.
Beef Stock: 32 oz.
Garlic: 1 Bulb.
Garlic Powder: 5 TBS (or to taste).
Coriander: 5 TBS (or to taste).
Himalayan Salt (or Sea Salt): To Taste
Cracked Pepper: To Taste
Rosemary and Bay Leaves
Parsley: 1 Bunch
Corn Starch: To Desired Thickness.
Bourbon or Vodka: 1/2 cup.
Orange Juice: 1/2 cup.
Cooking Instructions:
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