Scale or Fail by Allison Maslan

2020, book #14: “As a leader, unless advice is explicitly requested, remain TOTALLY silent. Do not offer opinions or tell your own stories to show you relate to them.” — Allison Maslan

Finished on February 29, 2020

I’d had this book on my reading list for quite some time and when I saw that it was released, I knew I wanted to be sure to study it. Most times, I don’t care much about pre-releases or anything like that but this was an outlier. I had it on my list before it was even released and once I saw that the audiobook was available, I jumped on the opportunity. This book was great, I definitely learned a lot and enjoyed it along the way.

This is so obvious but we all overlook this at one time or another. Why is it that we think that we can make something different in the future by doing the same things over and over again? It’s ludicrous, no?

We tend to take action based on what we know and what we’ve done before as if the past can predict the future. But, we cannot get to the next level if we refuse to try anything new or different.

When I first went through this book I re-listened to this segment multiple times. This was one of the most important takeaways for…