Resources for product teams from industry experts
Do you cling to the idea that you the leader are the one who sets the vision and drives your people to pursue new and useful solutions? Or do you see yourself as someone who creates a place that elicits people’s slices of genius and turns them into collective genius?
— Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, et al.
The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
— Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
You may discover, as many questioners do when they begin to burrow into a problem, that there is much more to know than you could have imagined at the outset. Don’t be put off by learning how much you don’t know. That darkness was always out there, surrounding you; you just had no idea how vast it was until you began probing with your question flashlight.
— A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
A question that’s hard enough to be interesting, but realistic enough that you have some hope of answering it. (Not that you have to find an answer to all beautiful questions; the string theorist Witten, for instance, has never fully answered his biggest questions about the nature of the universe, but he told me that the pursuit of those questions has led him to many other interesting discoveries along the way.)
— A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
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