Culture building

YouTube

Using CliftonStrengths to develop yourself and your team

Bill Gallagher March 26, 2017

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Culture building 8

Hiring & recruitment 6

Identity & self-belief 5

• Being well-rounded makes you average, not excellent.
• Talent — not IQ — is the real driver of performance.
• Team strength maps reveal hidden biases and hiring blind spots.

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Origin stories

Podcast

Thomas Edison: Autonomy, obsession, and the invention of modern celebrity

Founders March 24, 2017

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Origin stories 10

Identity & self-belief 7

Deep work & focus 6

• Edison's real goal was autonomy — not wealth or fame
• The phonograph made him famous before the light bulb did
• Rivals Bell and Edison each accidentally invented the other's breakthrough

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Case studies

YouTube

How Backblaze built a cost advantage by solving its own impossible problem

Bill Gallagher March 22, 2017

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Case studies 9

Bootstrapping 7

Competitive analysis 6

• No funding forced Backblaze to build hardware competitors can't match
• Shucking consumer drives solved a supply crisis nobody else anticipated
• Result: cloud storage at one quarter of Amazon S3's price

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Overcoming insecurity about hair loss: seven practical steps

Noah Kagan March 20, 2017

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Name your insecurity out loud — it loses power immediately
• Embrace the shaved head or accept the fade; the middle destroys you
• You notice your flaws far more than anyone else ever does

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