6 claims in “business, psychology”
The tension between financial partners and operational partners in shipping (and other capital-intensive industries) is inherent: financial people want to exit and realize returns, while operators want to keep running and growing; the two sides need each other but have conflicting goals.
There is value in being wrong as a contrarian if surrounded by the right peer group, because original thinkers create a culture that supports independent judgment, though ultimately this requires some degree of solo thinking or with co-founders to avoid getting trapped in groupthink.
OpenAI's founding motivation was pure—to push AI research forward without financial or power incentives—which Altman attributes to already having made money from Looped, making wealth accumulation less motivating at that life stage.
Most leadership training emphasizes decision-making, but the tool for improving people's performance is feedback, criticism, evaluation, judgment, and counsel—all forms of carrying feedback.
When studying the best leaders, finding their commonalities and universal patterns is not easy, but once patterns emerge, they are surprising in their ubiquity across leaders from different generations, geographies, and experiences.
Some leaders have drawn the wrong lesson from their success, believing that harsh or stern leadership caused their results, when actually those results occurred despite their harshness and they would achieve better results with style variation.