43: John Cutler - Everything wrong with everything in a business
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John Cutler is the best systems thinker I know. Whenever we talk, there’s a beautiful meta-analysis around systems happening. Why do we work the way we do? Why can we not figure out how to run businesses efficiently if we do it so often? Why do inexperienced, brilliant people constantly get into trouble, and how do they get out of it?Individual vs. team habitsHow much of our decisions is gut vs. objectivityLeadership porn and its connected biasesTimestamps: 6:50 How people throw words like “efficiency” and “productivity” around and do not understand them 13:25 Product operations is thinking about what can remain and what has to go in the future.  19:50 Growing pains vs. normal pains. Why do young, smart people constantly get into really bad situations with their businesses? 25:05 Experts will always tell you that things are simple. Why tips on LinkedIn don’t work but are still popular. 30:15 How to be consistent. 38:00 The unbeautiful side of establishing habits. Individual vs. team habits 50:20 Leadership “porn”, why you should not search for broken components in organizations. Going broad first before specific. John’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpcutler/ Johns Blog: https://cutlefish.substack.com/ Leah on Linkedin / Twitter / Youtube
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