Bill Hoogterp has spent decades advisable for celebrities, CEOs and aspiring stars in some of the most powerful meeting rooms in America. With his coaching company Lifehikes, he helped more than 700,000 experts AssetsThe most powerful lists.
But if you believe that the secret of your success is raw intelligence or long hours, you would be wrong. According to Hoogter, one of the most constant and perhaps surprising qualities that are shared by the ultra-successful laziness is.
“I would say there is a comparison of almost counterintuitive features,” he says Assets. “Most successful people, if they meet the most famous politicians, they were not necessarily the A -students. They are not necessarily the smartest.”
“What most CEOs have – almost nobody else has – is that your ambition is far exaggerated. If you combine it with lazy, you create a really nice mix, because if you are really, really hungry, to be successful, but you always look for abbreviations, the combination of these two things leads to many small breakthroughs.”
It doesn’t mean with lazyCalm vacation“Instead of sanding.” You are like: “How can I have it faster, easier, better and time and energy for other things?” Hoogterp explained.
Proven abbreviations for success: no big meetings, acronyms or single and single and one
Many top -class founders embody the paradoxical formula of Hooterp. They do not cut corners on the coastal but to outsmart the competition, innovate faster and remain agile in a rapidly moving market.
The most famous example of this is Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, who has shaped famous Move quickly and break things He is today when scaling Facebook in the social media giant of 1.8 trillion dollars.
Likewise Jeff Bezos’ Top career advice For his once right man, Greg, he should literally do less himself and delegate more to his employees. “The fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the faster the organization”, the billionaire Amazon Founder told him.
Nvidia CEO and co -founder Jensen Huang Has no one-to-one meetings With its 60 direct reports – and it is a deliberate abbreviation for innovation. It not only saves time in their schedules, but also, it ensures that ideas and problems are not laid in private conversations. “In this way, our company was designed for agility – so that information flowed as soon as possible,” he said.
Then there is Elon Musk, who has a whole List of time savings And corner cutting rules for employees, including a ban on large and frequent meetings, no command chain or acronym and an encouragement to go unnecessary discussions. “Go from a meeting or give a call as soon as it is obvious that you do not give any value” Tesla Chocolate outlined. “It is not rude, it is rude to stay someone and waste your time.”
Brains alone do not bring them to the top – or even occur
Hooterps claim that the most successful are not the smartest applies not only to CEOs. It is a topic that is also repeated in the attitude. Countless CEOs and founders said that they appreciate the attitude through the suitability.
Amazon’s Ki boss said exclusively Assets This stumbles through an interview question that doesn’t cost you the job. But be wrong Will. Andy Jassy, the company’s CEO (and his boss), shared similarly that the attitude is that Make-or-break feature That will determine their success – in particular, he says in their 20s.
The British boss of Cisco also focuses on whether a potential new use has positive energy and a CAN-DO posture because, as she says, it cannot be taught. “It’s more about the person primarily than skills or experience,” said Sarah Walker Assets.
And they are far from 80% of Assets 500 Use personality tests in setting as well as tech giants such as Amazon, Meta and Microsoft.
A positive attitude is so important that some chiefs remain rather understaffed than the risk of a bad apple will spoil the pile. As Duolingos CEO said AssetsPresent “It is better to have a hole than an asshole.”
