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Peter Thiel on what most founders don’t understand about differentiation “I think you want to have very big differences inside the team, and then from the outside, you want to be seen as very different from the rest of the world.” For example, SpacEx’s mission is to go to Mars: “Everybody at the company thinks: we’re the only place in the world where people are going to go to Mars. And that one idea separates it very sharply from the rest of the world.” And then within a company, you want the roles to be as differentiated as possible. One of the challenges in an early stage startup is that the roles tend to fluctuate a lot. Thiel believes this is one of the ways in which conflicts tend to arise. “If you were a sociopathic boss who just wanted to create conflicts amongst your employees for no reason at all, the formula for creating conflicts is to tell two people to do the exact same thing.” To summarize his point, Thiel concludes: “You want to have roles differentiated sharply differentiated within companies. And you want to have the mission of the company differentiated sharply from the rest of the world.” Video source: Saïd Business School (2015)
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Peter Thiel on what most founders don’t understand about differentiation “I think you want to have very big differences inside the team, and then from the outside, you want to be seen as very different from the rest of the world.” For example, SpacEx’s mission is to go to Mars: “Everybody at the company thinks: we’re the only place in the world where people are going to go to Mars. And that one idea separates it very sharply from the rest of the world.” And then within a company, you want the roles to be as differentiated as possible. One of the challenges in an early stage startup is that the roles tend to fluctuate a lot. Thiel believes this is one of the ways in which conflicts tend to arise. “If you were a sociopathic boss who just wanted to create conflicts amongst your employees for no reason at all, the formula for creating conflicts is to tell two people to do the exact same thing.” To summarize his point, Thiel concludes: “You want to have roles differentiated sharply differentiated within companies. And you want to have the mission of the company differentiated sharply from the rest of the world.” Video source: Saïd Business School (2015)

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Peter Thiel on what most founders don’t understand about differentiation “I think you want to have very big differences inside the team, and then from the outside, you want to be seen as very different from the rest of the world.” For example, SpacEx’s mission is to go to Mars: “Everybody at the company thinks: we’re the only place in the world where people are going to go to Mars. And that one idea separates it very sharply from the rest of the world.” And then within a company, you want the roles to be as differentiated as possible. One of the challenges in an early stage startup is that the roles tend to fluctuate a lot. Thiel believes this is one of the ways in which conflicts tend to arise. “If you were a sociopathic boss who just wanted to create conflicts amongst your employees for no reason at all, the formula for creating conflicts is to tell two people to do the exact same thing.” To summarize his point, Thiel concludes: “You want to have roles differentiated sharply differentiated within companies. And you want to have the mission of the company differentiated sharply from the rest of the world.” Source: Saïd Business School (May 2015)
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Peter Thiel on what most founders don’t understand about differentiation “I think you want to have very big differences inside the team, and then from the outside, you want to be seen as very different from the rest of the world.” For example, SpacEx’s mission is to go to Mars: “Everybody at the company thinks: we’re the only place in the world where people are going to go to Mars. And that one idea separates it very sharply from the rest of the world.” And then within a company, you want the roles to be as differentiated as possible. One of the challenges in an early stage startup is that the roles tend to fluctuate a lot. Thiel believes this is one of the ways in which conflicts tend to arise. “If you were a sociopathic boss who just wanted to create conflicts amongst your employees for no reason at all, the formula for creating conflicts is to tell two people to do the exact same thing.” To summarize his point, Thiel concludes: “You want to have roles differentiated sharply differentiated within companies. And you want to have the mission of the company differentiated sharply from the rest of the world.” Source: Saïd Business School (May 2015)

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Peter Thiel on the importance of reducing internal conflict at a company In his book Zero to One, Peter Thiel stresses the importance of reducing internal conflict within your startup, and the best way to do that is through a clear division of responsibilities: “The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee’s one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would evaluate him only on that one thing. I had started doing this just to simplify the task of managing people. But then I noticed a deeper result: defining roles reduced conflict. Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities. Startups face an especially high risk of this since job roles are fluid at the early stages. Eliminating competition makes it easier for everyone to build the kinds of long-term relationships that transcend mere professionalism. More than that, internal peace is what enables a startup to survive at all. When a startup fails, we often imagine it succumbing to predatory rivals in a competitive ecosystem. But every company is also its own ecosystem, and factional strife makes it vulnerable to outside threats. Internal conflict is like an autoimmune disease: the technical cause of death may be pneumonia, but the real cause remains hidden from plain view.” He elaborates on this a bit more in the clip below: “If you’re a sociopathic boss who wants to mistreat their employees, the formula for doing it is to tell two people to do the exact same thing. You will automatically generate a conflict out of nothing at all.” Video source: The Wharton School (2014)

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The Media is Not Doing its Job Chamath Palihapitiya breaks down the viral "sharp as a tack" clip: "Six minutes of 100 spokespeople and proxies, and they all had the same thing to say about President Biden, which is, 'He is sharp as a tack.'" "If I asked 100 people on the street, 'What do you think of Elon Musk?' You'd have 100 different statements. There be a general theme, but you would not have even 50 people repeat the exact same words." "You have this funny situation where 100 different people were basically saying the exact same talking point. So it's not even a point of view. It was just something that they were told to say by somebody else." "And that is the real issue: you don't really have an honest media here. So there is no check and balance on power right now."

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If you are taking another job, if you are pretending to work from home but you’re not actually working and American taxpayers are paying for it, you better be damn sure that President Trump’s going to figure it out. Department of Government Efficiency is going to cut the waste, cut the fat, and you no longer have a job here.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why the people you surround yourself with matter more than you think "The most important decision you're probably going to make if you're in college is who you surround yourself with, because you become like the people you surround yourself with" "When you're in college trying to figure out what your circle is going to be, or evaluating different job opportunities... who are the people, even if they're peers, who in an alternate universe you would want to work for?" "Because you think you're going to learn a lot from them, because they're values-aligned on the things you care about, and they're going to push you. They know different things and have different experiences that are more of what you want to become like over time" "I think in general people are too obsessed and maybe not focused enough on the connections and the people who they're building relationships with"

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 The entire Israel-Palestine conflict comes down to one number: 5.6%. Economist Saifedean Ammous lays out exactly how a group owning 5.6% of the land built a state on the rest. "If you did the same thing anywhere else in the world, you would generate the same kind of conflict." The math was always going to end in expulsion. Saifedean Ammous
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 The entire Israel-Palestine conflict comes down to one number: 5.6%. Economist Saifedean Ammous lays out exactly how a group owning 5.6% of the land built a state on the rest. "If you did the same thing anywhere else in the world, you would generate the same kind of conflict." The math was always going to end in expulsion. Saifedean Ammous

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96,853 views • 2 months ago

There’s no such thing as a gay Christian. — John MacArthur “Such were some of you; but” – this is key – “you were sanctified.” Do you know what that means? Separated from that sin - separated from that sin. “People say, “Well, you know, if you’re homosexual, you know, you can’t really ever be changed.” That’s not what Scripture says. You were like this, but you are sanctified; you’re separated from that behavior. It doesn’t just say you were justified; that’s forensic. I’m glad it doesn’t just say you were justified, because then people would say, “Yes, I am forgiven; the righteousness of Christ is imputed to me. I’m justified, but I still have the same sort of a tendency.” No, you were justified, but you were also washed and sanctified, changed, separated in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that work is done by the Spirit of our God.
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There’s no such thing as a gay Christian. — John MacArthur “Such were some of you; but” – this is key – “you were sanctified.” Do you know what that means? Separated from that sin - separated from that sin. “People say, “Well, you know, if you’re homosexual, you know, you can’t really ever be changed.” That’s not what Scripture says. You were like this, but you are sanctified; you’re separated from that behavior. It doesn’t just say you were justified; that’s forensic. I’m glad it doesn’t just say you were justified, because then people would say, “Yes, I am forgiven; the righteousness of Christ is imputed to me. I’m justified, but I still have the same sort of a tendency.” No, you were justified, but you were also washed and sanctified, changed, separated in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that work is done by the Spirit of our God.

Terri Green

95,322 views • 5 months ago

“We have to reduce the population” The Globalist elites tell you openly there are too many people, then the same persons push an experimental injection for a virus you have to test to know you have. You figure it out.
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“We have to reduce the population” The Globalist elites tell you openly there are too many people, then the same persons push an experimental injection for a virus you have to test to know you have. You figure it out.

Concerned Citizen

41,347 views • 1 year ago

"The coaches that got the most out of me I really trusted them. It had nothing to do with liking them. That would be the bedrock of any pyramid for coaching - some aspect of trust. It allows you to have conflict...hold other people accountable...until you get to the result which is the championship."
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"The coaches that got the most out of me I really trusted them. It had nothing to do with liking them. That would be the bedrock of any pyramid for coaching - some aspect of trust. It allows you to have conflict...hold other people accountable...until you get to the result which is the championship."

The Winning Difference

18,356 views • 4 months ago

Jesse Watters says he has a friend who is a veteran who is afraid they are going to fired because they are probationary employee at the Pentagon: Veterans should get priority. Because if you're going to go out there and kill enemies, put your life on the line, you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI
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Jesse Watters says he has a friend who is a veteran who is afraid they are going to fired because they are probationary employee at the Pentagon: Veterans should get priority. Because if you're going to go out there and kill enemies, put your life on the line, you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI

Acyn

1,894,961 views • 1 year ago

"Hamas is not going to be eradicated no matter what Israel does in Gaza. Even if Israel defeats Hamas's entire military network, even if it kills every Hamas fighter, Hamas continues as a political movement, Hamas continues to have support, not a majority, but a certain amount of support. The idea that b/c of what Hamas did on Oct. 7th, it is excluded from Palestinian governance, is an Israeli, European & American fantasy. You do not negotiate with the people who have already agreed to your terms. You couldn't do that in Ireland, you had to bring the IRA in, you couldn't do that in South Africa, you had to bring the ANC in, you couldn't do that in Algeria, you had bring the FLN in. These groups that had carried out horrific attacks against civilians, they were described as terrorists or bandits, but the only people you really need to negotiate with are the people with the guns. Until that fact gets through the thick skulls of people in Washington & London & Paris, we are not going anywhere." - Rashid Khalidi
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"Hamas is not going to be eradicated no matter what Israel does in Gaza. Even if Israel defeats Hamas's entire military network, even if it kills every Hamas fighter, Hamas continues as a political movement, Hamas continues to have support, not a majority, but a certain amount of support. The idea that b/c of what Hamas did on Oct. 7th, it is excluded from Palestinian governance, is an Israeli, European & American fantasy. You do not negotiate with the people who have already agreed to your terms. You couldn't do that in Ireland, you had to bring the IRA in, you couldn't do that in South Africa, you had to bring the ANC in, you couldn't do that in Algeria, you had bring the FLN in. These groups that had carried out horrific attacks against civilians, they were described as terrorists or bandits, but the only people you really need to negotiate with are the people with the guns. Until that fact gets through the thick skulls of people in Washington & London & Paris, we are not going anywhere." - Rashid Khalidi

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678,159 views • 2 years ago