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Every Experiment risks failing; the goal is to plan for a risk you can absorb. Start small.
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149 |
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The purpose of an Experiment is to gather data. You win whether the Experiment succeeds or fails.
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149 |
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…the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say ‘no.’
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020 |
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A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.
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067 |
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…action items for CEOs: Build a culture that rewards – not punishes – people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.
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067 |
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When things go wrong in your company, nobody cares. The media don’t care, your investors don’t care, your board doesn’t care, your employees don’t care… And they are right not to care.
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092 |
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If you don’t train your people, you establish no basis for performance management. As a result, performance management in your company will be sloppy and inconsistent.
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107 |
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…there is no investment that you can make that will do more to improve productivity in your company than a training program.
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110 |
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Good product managers… are not part of the product team; they manage the product team.
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111 |
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Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers – it’s strictly for amateurs.
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133 |
