The Four

As I described at the beginning of this book, my sixth company is L2, a business intelligence (fancy term for research) firm tha ...

do better than peers who are more easily flustered, get hung up on petty issues, and let their emotions drive their responses to ...

master tools that did not exist a decade ago, or even last year. For better or worse (and frankly, it is often for worse), organ ...

Desjardins, Jeff. “Timeline: The March to a Billion Users [Chart].” Visual Capitalist. Go to College Yeah, I know... no shit. St ...

times more, over their lifetime, than people with just high school degrees. There are precious few places in the world and times ...

At a top university, the brand isn’t the only thing that you’ll get besides your education. The friends you make on campus can b ...

A CFA, CPA, Union Card, Pilot’s Instrument Rating, RN, Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Certification... hell, a smartphone and a driver’s ...

tapping away at their laptops through the magic of the information superhighway. In fact, the opposite has happened. Wealth, inf ...

You need a medium to spread your awesomeness, as the path to under-compensation is doing good work that never gets explicitly pi ...

Instagram Stories). Buy some keywords and post a video on Google and YouTube. No manager says “I don’t like business.” The Four ...

Note: I recognize that for many or most middle-class families this may just not be feasible. Nobody becomes superwealthy through ...

yourself to that company for three to five years. Don’t burn mental energy on your external options unless your current situatio ...

Be loyal to people. People transcend corporations, and people, unlike corporations, value loyalty. Good leaders know they are on ...

The best revenge is living better than, or at least never again thinking about, the person who made your life miserable. And ten ...

management. This doesn’t mean you can’t be successful in a cost center, or that you have to make the thing the company sells. Lo ...

Strength A decent proxy for your success will be your ratio of sweating to watching others sweat (watching sports on TV). It’s n ...

nighters weekly, and it didn’t kill us, but made us stronger. This approach to work, however, as you get older, can in fact kill ...

What Part of the Alphabet Are You? The different stages of a firm’s life cycle require different leadership. Start-up, growth, m ...

The operator is long on business maturity and reeks of integrity. He or she must be highly competent at dealing with employees w ...

firms in Silicon Valley for each decade of the last sixty years. It’s a rare firm that makes the list twice. A more likely fate ...