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When management treats workers and their organization as enemies, they are treated as enemies in return. It’s as simple as that.
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…[the] professional automaton has… little capacity for independent judgment. He always obeys, never decides.
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Most people agree in principle with the dictum that fine feathers don’t make fine birds, but in practice an employee is judged by his appearance.
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…discover an irrelevant incompetence. Find it and practice it diligently. It will keep you at a level of incompetence and so assure you of the keen personal satisfaction of regularly accomplishing some useful work.
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…the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.
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…in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly.
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24 |
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Most tools from general management are not designed to flourish in the harsh soil of extreme uncertainty in which startups thrive.
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29 |
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Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that does not mean it cannot be managed… but [it] requires a new management discipline…
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…cultivating entrepreneurship is the responsibility of senior management.
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The amount of time a company can count on holding on to market leadership… creates an imperative for even the most entrenched companies to invest in innovation.
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