43: John Cutler - Everything wrong with everything in a business

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 habits
• How much of our decisions is gut vs. objectivity
• Leadership porn and its connected biases

Timestamps:
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/

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