Resources for product teams from industry experts
What are some of the advantages of organizing much of a company in a mission-oriented form? There is only one. It is that the individual units can stay in touch with the needs of their business or product areas and initiate changes rapidly when those needs change. That is it. All other considerations favor the functional type of organization.
— High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
There is a certain zone of satisfaction where your input and effort provide an acceptable amount of satisfaction or outcome. If you expend too many resources and effort, you move out of the zone—too little outcome. If you expend too little, you move out of the zone—too little outcome. If you expect too much or too few results, you also move out of the zone. Seeing the world clearly requires having a clear understanding of cause and effect.
— Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving by Peter Hollins
Imagine a world in which managers and employees have honest conversations about each other’s goals and time tables; where managers and team members define jobs that match their values and aspirations; and in which even employees who move on to a different employer maintain an ongoing, mutually beneficial relationship with the company. It’s a world—and a culture of employment—that’s already taken shape in Silicon Valley, and we expect its principles will spread to all industries and across the globe. Mutual investment creates massive value for companies and for employees. Even if the effects of the alliance stopped there, it would be a talent framework worth adopting.
— The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, et al.
Evolution moves toward greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, greater love. And God has been called all these things, only without any limitation: infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite creativity, and infinite love. Evolution does not achieve an infinite level, but as it explodes exponentially it certainly moves in that direction. So evolution moves inexorably toward our conception of God, albeit never reaching this ideal.
— The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
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