We respond to an intriguing and dense article from Avery Pennarun about what executives do. He takes us back to Andy Grove’s classic High Output Management and we reflect on the leverage leaders can use, how they and their staff can fool themselves into thinking they have the right information, and a mindset exercise to help you find “unknown unknowns”.

SHOW LINKS:

- What do executives do, anyway? by Pennarun: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926 and Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088425

- Andy Grove, High Output Management: https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884

- Art of Action: http://www.stephenbungay.com/Books.ink

- Argyris, Organizational Traps: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8633384-organizational-traps

- Unknown Unknowns, Rumsfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

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