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  • Core values are the organization’s essential and enduring tenets — a small set of timeless guiding principles that require no external justification; they have intrinsic value and importance to those inside the organization. “The core values embodied in our Credo might be a competitive advantage, but that is not why we have them. We have them because they define for us what we stand for, and we would hold them even if they became a competitive disadvantage in certain situations.” The key point is that an enduring great company decides for itself what values it holds to be core, largely independent of the current environment, competitive requirements, or management fads.

    — Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras

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  • Core ideology provides the bonding glue that holds an organization together as it grows, decentralizes, diversifies, expands globally, and attains diversity within. Think of core ideology as analogous to the principles of Judaism that held the Jewish people together for centuries without a homeland, even as they spread in the Diaspora. Or think of it like the truths held to be “self-evident” in the United States Declaration of Independence, or the enduring ideals and principles of the scientific community that bond scientists from every nationality together with the common purpose of advancing human knowledge.

    Any effective vision must embody the core ideology of the organization, which in turn consists of two distinct sub-components: core values and core purpose.

    — Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras

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  • If the technology is new, you very likely don’t have anyone on the teams who has been trained on this new technology. This fact ends up scaring off many leaders, or they occasionally think they have to partner with a third party that does have the necessary experience. But if the technology is important to you, your company needs to learn that technology. And the sooner the better.

    The good news is that this is rarely that difficult. Your best engineers are probably already considering this technology and would love to be able to explore further.

    In the best organizations, it is the empowered engineers that often identify these enabling technologies and proactively bring the possibilities to the leaders, usually in the form of a prototype.

    — EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan

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  • It’s about shared learning. One of the keys to having a team of missionaries rather than a team of mercenaries is that the team has learned together. They have seen the customer’s pain together, they have watched together as some ideas failed and others worked, and they all understand the context for why this is important and what needs to be done.

    — INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan

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  • Above all else, my wishes for you are that:

    • You can make your work and your passion one and the same.
    • You can struggle well with others on your common mission to produce the previously mentioned rewards.
    • You can savor both your struggles and your rewards and;
    • You will evolve quickly and contribute to evolution in significant ways.

    — Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

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