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As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection and collaboration throughout our teams. ”
For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground. ”
At Airbnb, we're trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them. ”
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. ”
With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.' ”
There's a film that I wrote that I want to do called 'The Grey,' which is about a group of pipeline workers in Alaska flying back into civilization after being remote for a number of months. The 737 they're on goes down, and they begin to be hunted by a pack of rogue wolves. ”
I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation. ”
If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail. ”
We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had. ”
Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional. ”