Resources for product teams from industry experts
If you’re not actively taking what employees learn from their networks and bringing that knowledge back into the company to help solve challenges, it’s as if you’re flying millions of miles a year without bothering to attach your frequent flyer number to the reservations. The asset is there, but you have to claim it.
— The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, et al.
Building a visionary company is a design problem, and great designers apply general principles, not mechanical lock-step dogma. Any specific how-to will almost certainly become obsolete. But the general concepts — adapted, of course, to changing conditions — can last as guiding principles well into the next century.
— Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
When you start a new business you do not need to envision accurately the details of your strategy or predict foresightedly how technology will evolve. Rather, you need to focus primarily on getting the initial conditions right. If you start from a good place, then the choices that lead to success will look like the right choices. In order to exploit these choices, you need to create a business model whose resources, processes, and values can harness these forces so that they propel you toward success rather than blow you away.
— The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen, et al.
Personal recommendations go a long way. We trust the judgment of others. It’s part of the fabric of strong cultures. But we don’t trust the judgment of just anyone. We are more likely to trust those who share our values and beliefs. When we believe someone has our best interest in mind because it is in their benefit to do so, the whole group benefits. The advancements of societies were based a great deal on the trust between those with a common set of values and beliefs.
— Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
The ability of a company to innovate is not just useful for developing new ideas, it is invaluable for navigating struggle. When people come to work with a higher sense of purpose, they find it easier to weather hard times or even to find opportunity in those hard times.
— Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
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