Thoughtfolio — Issue #26
What I’ve been reading this week…
The Stanford entrepreneurship challenge that most students fail. (3 mins) — ozanvarol.com
You’re given $5 dollars and 2-hours to make as much money as possible. What do you do?
Extreme autonomy: building a 14,000-employee, decentralised business. (5 mins) — www.rolandberger.com
Buurtzorg is a home care nursing business with over 1,000 teams that are autonomous and self-managing. Yet they have the highest client & employee satisfaction, lowest costs and best patient outcomes. Here’s how they do it.
Do we expect too much from ‘work’? (9 mins) — www.nytimes.com
Alain de Botton explains how work as a means to self-fulfilment is a very modern expectation and maybe we need to chill the f*ck out (I’m paraphrasing).
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” David Viscott
