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Year of Yes

By Shonda Rhimes

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“the year of yes by shaer ryes”

Speaker: Ami Vora▶ Watch at ~1:17:30approx.

Perfect strategy with poor execution teaches you nothing. Good-enough strategy with perfect execution compounds.

Insert a step between receiving feedback and acting on it — then answer it by adding tools, never by getting smaller.

Pick the feeling, name where you last felt it, and let the metaphor make a thousand small decisions for you.

Build runnable models of the sharpest people you've worked with, then boot the right one when you're stuck.

Run the spreadsheet, then tear it up — and simulate a Tuesday in the job instead.

Executives hold three facts. Bring a recommendation, not a catalogue — and leave with principles, not answers.

Convert the visceral urge to be right into a question that harvests the information you're missing.

Name whether you're optimising a local hill or crossing the valley to a bigger mountain — then price the valley.

Goal every team on the same output metric and they swarm the ball. Detangle the customer journey into lanes.

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