Concepts I keep coming back to

Name the hard thing directly instead of letting it rot under the surface.

From "Politics and the English Language": concrete, vivid, concise prose as a defense against sloppy thinking.

Given enough shots, the unlikely becomes inevitable.

The trap of doing things that look and feel like work but do not move the real outcome.

Optimize for finding the right answer, not for winning the argument.

Raise the energy, pace, and ambition of the team.

Care personally and challenge directly; avoid the false comfort of caring without candor.

A running list of things that could be done much faster than convention assumes.

Organizations add layers and approvals as they grow. The only way around it is to flip the equation from approvals to vetoes.