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Honing the Sword: Jensen Huang on Conflict, Clear Thinking, and Fundamentals

1 Comment / Leadership, Team Dynamics / McHugh Michael

Mastering the fundamentals is preached throughout the sports world. It’s also a theme, along with the phrase, “honing the sword,” that anyone working under Nvidia’s Jensen Huang often hears. Jensen is obsessed with fundamentals and has a clarity of thinking that’s second to none. Add in his willingness to have healthy conflict, and you get […]

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Friday Five — Balance the Books, Clear the Mind, End the Day Clean

Friday Five, Newsletter / McHugh Michael

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 309 | November 28, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to help you start the weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week The Lost Bayou Ramblers, hailing from Lafayette, Louisiana, perform Cajun music throughout the world. Louis Michot (fiddle,

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Execution Strategy: Hire People Smarter Than You

2 Comments / Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership / McHugh Michael

Nvidia’s operating system comes directly from its founder, Jensen Huang. His approach is simple but demanding: hire people smarter than you, move fast, and work with the intensity that compounds over time. The Nvidia Way shows how these principles shaped not just the company, but the pace at which it operates. “I owe whatever success

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Avoiding Complacency: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang on Resilience and Future-Proofing

2 Comments / Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Mindset, Strategy / McHugh Michael

Complacency kills companies. It’s why legendary coach Nick Saban preached against it for decades. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang felt the same way. He knew avoiding complacency would keep Nvidia alive. One way Jensen fought complacency was by building resilience. He believed resilience mattered more than intelligence. Another driver of success, in Jensen’s view, is using pain

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Leadership Lessons: Jeff Bezos on Change When Critics Are Right

Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership / McHugh Michael

Some leaders avoid criticism. Jeff Bezos treated it like a mirror—leadership lessons to be learned at every turn. Ernest Holmes once wrote, “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” Bezos believed that idea at scale—experiment boldly, fail intelligently, obsess over customers, and be willing to change

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Friday Five – Be tolerant with others, Hold yourself higher, Change yourself first

Friday Five, Newsletter / McHugh Michael

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 307 | November 14, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to help you start the weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Takuya Nakamura, originally from Japan, moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s to study under legendary

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Day One Mindset: Jeff Bezos on Keeping Your Company Alive

2 Comments / Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership / McHugh Michael

It’s Always Day One.” – Jeff Bezos Make it Cost Less Jeff Bezos built Amazon on a simple discipline: obsess over the customer. That obsession revealed itself most clearly in Amazon’s fixation on lowering costs—a cornerstone of the Day One mindset. “It’s always better to have lower costs,” Bezos said in Amazon Unbound—a line that could

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Building Moats: How the Amazon Flywheel Reinforces Itself

Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship / McHugh Michael

“The most important thing [is] trying to find a business with a wide and long-lasting moat around it… protecting a terrific economic castle with an honest lord in charge of the castle.” – Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s castle-and-moat metaphor captures one of business’s most enduring ideas: build systems that protect themselves. Jeff Bezos did exactly that

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Friday Five – Master your mind, Lead yourself, Create your impact

Friday Five, Newsletter / McHugh Michael

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 306 | November 7, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to help you start the weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Jean-Philip Grobler is a South African singer and musician who’s the frontman of the band St. Lucia.

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