> Once we were seated, he delivered the most concise, precise, and actionable lesson in leadership imaginable—a lesson I believe everyone could benefit from. As I recall, he said:

> > Congratulations …. your days of whining are over .

> > In this room, we deliver success, we don’t whine.

> > Look, I’m not confused, I know you walk through fields of shit every day.

> > Your job is to find the rose petals.

> > Don’t come whining that you don’t have the resources you need.

> > We’ve done our homework.

> > We’ve evaluated the portfolio, considered the opportunities and allocated our available resources to those opportunities.

> > That is what you have to work with.

> > Your job is to manufacture success with the resources you’ve been allocated.

> > And yes – you have a hard job.

Not concise: he could've said "Your job is to manufacture success with the resources you’ve been allocated. No ifs, ands, or buts."

Precise: what does he mean by "success"? Maximizing profit?

Actionable: yes. The rest of the lesson is "you control how resources are allocated within your team, and of course also the attitude and instructions you present to them. Set a goal for 'outsized' success (e.g. increase growth), have a plausible plan to that goal, follow the plan, and if the plan becomes no longer plausible have a new one. If you do that, you can occasionally fail and not be kicked out."

> Satya was not giving us a pep talk, he was giving us an architecture for success.

Maybe it was also an "architecture for success" but it was a pep talk. Also, this entire post sounds like typical AI, and like typical AI has lots of filler and vapidity. It would really benefit by having concrete examples of great leadership.