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Quote: “When your best players are committed to the ideals that you’re [preaching], and the coach holds them as accountable as anyone on the team, then it’s easy for people to recognize: If I want to be successful here, here’s what I need to do.”
(categories: nba systems ideals accountability team-first )
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Links: 10-24-2017
Links: 10-23-2017
- The New Moats – Greylock Perspectives
Quote: "If you pick a place in the technology stack and become the absolute best of breed solution you can create a valuable company. However, this means picking a technical problem with few substitutes, that requires hard engineering, and needs operational knowledge to scale."
(categories: strategy intelligence ai business )
Links: 10-21-2017
Links: 10-16-2017
- How Steve Kerr revolutionized the Golden State Warriors’ offense on a charcuterie board
Grand Unifying Metrics and any Steve Kerr story.
(categories: coaching strategy metrics leadership thinking ) - What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
Quote: "Will you admire this person? Will this person raise the average level of effectiveness of the group they’re entering? Along what dimension might this person be a superstar?" and lots of other Bezos / Amazon quotes.
(categories: hiring amazon leadership management strategy bezos )
Links: 10-14-2017
- The Product Manager vs. the Technical Product Manager | Aha! Blog
Many companies will find that they excel with two product management roles — a business-minded PM and a technical PM. And others will determine that it is best to have one person leading product who can answer the “why” and the “what” and who can also engage in the “how.”
(categories: productmanagement careers product-product-product product-owner )
Links: 10-8-2017
- Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic
Troubling… but if you don’t get your kid a device, are they just as unhappy because they’re even more left out?
(categories: technology culture children kids attention ) - CloudNativeLandscape_v0.9.7.jpg (6000×3874)
Crazy explosion in the number of tools you need to master or be familiar with when building an application.
(categories: cloud-native cncf cloud technology ) - WebAIM: History of the browser user-agent string
So good.
(categories: mosaic mozilla firefox chrome user-agent safari explorer netscape browser ) - Warren Buffett’s "2 List" Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities
Quote: "Buffett’s strategy is particularly brilliant. Items 6 through 25 on your list are things you care about. They are important to you. It is very easy to justify spending your time on them. But when you compare them to your top 5 goals, these items are distractions. Spending time on secondary priorities is the reason you have 20 half-finished projects instead of 5 completed ones. Eliminate ruthlessly. Force yourself to focus."
(categories: focus attention productivity gtd advice buffet ) - Notes from Mind The Product 2017 | Scott Berkun
Quote: "We fall in love with our ideas, even if they don’t apply to the situation at hand. We have to remember to ask “is this idea any good”. We tend to consider one idea at a time, when we should be asking “compare and contrast” questions. Good is not an absolute trait, but we often assume that it is. When we consider more ideas we ask better questions."
(categories: ideas thinking strategy decision-making )
Links: 9-25-2017
- The Difference Between Open-Minded and Close-Minded People
Quote: "The ability to change your mind is a superpower."
(categories: thinking communication leadership mindset growth )
Links: 9-6-2017
- The Wrong Side of Right
Quote: "The most important lesson I’ve learned from running a company is that the more I give up trying to be right, the better the outcomes get for everyone. I don’t care who gets the credit. I care about creating the best win-win outcomes I can."
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Links: 8-25-2017
- Kitchen Soap – Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions
Quote: "Dialogue is about exploring the nature of choice. To choose is to select among alternatives. Dialogue is about evoking insight, which is a way of reordering our knowledge— particularly the taken-for-granted assumptions that people bring to the table. Discussion is about making a decision. Unlike dialogue, which seeks to open possibilities and see new options, discussion seeks closure and completion. The word decide means “to resolve difficulties by cutting through them.” Its roots litera…
(categories: decision-making conversation people management negotiation )