Quotes

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 157

…[staff], they themselves, every one of them, needs to change to be more in tune with the mandates of the new environment.

A World Without Email, Page 157

Agile itself is not an organizational system; it instead defines a general approach that is realized by multiple different specific systems.

Give and Take, Page 157

Successful givers, it turns out, are just as ambitious as takers and matchers.

ReWork, Page 157

Companies need to be true to a type of customer more than a specific individual customer with changing needs.

Inspired, Page 157

With larger enterprise companies, it’s never easy to drive substantial change, but this is exactly what strong product managers figure out how to do.

A World Without Email, Page 157

A key idea driving agile project management is that humans are naturally pretty good at planning.

The Effective Manager, Page 157

Reachable and reasonable deadlines drive behavior better than anything else.

Average is Over, Page 157

We… experience things differently when we feel we are dealing with a machine rather than a person.

Give and Take, Page 157

Selfless giving is a form of pathological altruism… such that in the process of trying to help others… givers end up harming themselves.

Never Eat Alone, Page 157

…we can learn to get along better with other people – and achieve great success – no matter who we are or how poor we are.