The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

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1. shape the narrative productively

Office politics

Headcount and promotion misincentive

Charlie Munger on incentives

In the vein of Management principles like the above:

2. 

"He answered right back. He always answered quickly. It seemed impossible to propose any subject to him that he had not thought about before you had. He kept his writers at the far ends of something like bicycle spokes - all separate, all somehow spinning together and apart, with him in the center - and when he turned down an idea he was usually protecting the interests of some writer whose name would never be mentioned" - John McPhee, Oranges.