Leadership models V: The Hero's Journey

Marton Trencseni - Fri 23 June 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles

The Hero's Journey, or Monomyth, is a narrative pattern identified by scholar Joseph Campbell that appears across a wide range of cultures and eras, and is also a useful mental model in Leadership.

Peter principle

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Leadership models IV: the Pareto Principle, the Peter Principle, the Rumsfeld Matrix, Servant Leadership and Pygmalion Effect, and Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Model

Marton Trencseni - Fri 19 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles

In this post, I describe the Pareto Principle, the Peter Principle, the Rumsfeld Matrix, Servant Leadership and Pygmalion Effect, and finally Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Model.

Peter principle

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Leadership models III: First Principles Thinking

Marton Trencseni - Tue 16 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles

I describe Elon Musk's First Principles Thinking model through several examples: SpaceX, Warren Buffet's Berkshire, Google's organization design, Python's language design, Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks.

Elon Musk First Principles Thinking

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