The ideal team player. The real product-market fit. Integrity-first business.

Welcome to a new issue of the newsletter, “Journal of discoveries.”

Each week, I check a list of hundreds of sources of inspiration to spot exciting articles, videos, podcasts, and books on personal development, leadership, management, technology, and innovation.

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And now, let’s dive in!

One “must” for this week

The ideal team players. Patrick Lencioni says they possess three key qualities: humility, hunger, and smartness.

• Humble: they prioritize the team's success over personal interests and give credit to others.
• Hungry: they are driven to seek more work and responsibility, going above and beyond when necessary.
• Smart: they have common sense when dealing with people, understand where others are coming from, and act appropriately.Personal development
• Integrity-first business
• Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus
• How to start new habits that actually stick
• Anger management made me a better leader
• The Egg
• The Munger operating system: a life that works
• Gifts
• Keeping relationships in focus

Innovation

• The real product-market fit
• The roadmap to product/market fit… maybe
• Preparedness team in OpenAI
• Guesses on the creator economy
• The 30 best pieces of advice for entrepreneurs
• Remembering the past to prepare for the future
• Digital technologies can make companies environmentally sustainable
• The road ahead reaches a turning point

Leadership and management

• The ideal team player
• Why employer misunderstanding of psychological safety is hurting teams’ performance
• Expressed humility in organizations: implications for performance, teams, and leadership.
• If you do this, your emails might be rude
• What I wish someone had told me
• Chronic complaining and toxic positivity: two scourges of the workplace
• John Boyd and the OODA loop
• Strategy lessons from Taylor Swift

One book

“The culture map” by Erin Meyer.