Quotes

Lost and Founder, Page 276

…startups often need to be a vastly better choice along multiple dimensions (ease of use, features, data quality, price, etc.) than their entrenched competitors.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 276

Many case studies reinforce the quantitative research findings: companies with records of outstanding long-term performance have extraordinarily flat structures.

Sooner Safer Happier, Page 276

…existing enterprise architecture design, and especially heavily layered architectures and their organizational structures, can be a significant impediment to flow.

Hacking Growth, Page 276

…moonshot bets are a company’s best defense against the incremental thinking about innovation that so often leads to growth stalls.

The Speed of Trust, Page 277

Doing good is no longer seen as something in addition to business; it is part of business itself.

Getting Things Done, Page 277

Because of the way the mind developed, it is brilliant at recognition, but terrible at recall.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 277

A powerful company culture built on a belief in in the importance and value of what it does and shared norms as to what is acceptable behavior is in itself a control mechanism that lessens the need for external controls…

Getting Things Done, Page 277

…your mind is designed to have ideas, based upon pattern detection, but it isn’t design to remember much of anything!

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 277

…with fewer controls comes great employee commitment and enthusiasm, which, in turn and in the manner of a virtuous cycle, requires fewer controls to operate effectively.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 277

There is no such thing as an enthusiastic workforce in an excessively layered organization.