Quotes

Never Eat Alone, Page 276

…if you hang with connected people, you’re connected. If you hang with successful people, you’re more likely to become successful yourself.

Flawless Consulting, Page 276

Leadership behavior is not as vital as membership behavior.

Lost and Founder, Page 276

If you become the default tool in a field or for a particular type of user, you can often maintain market leadership even if your competition produces a technically superior product.

How, Page 276

Uniting a group of people behind a single goal or set of goals presents the greatest challenge to any leader; achieving that alignment results in the greatest success.

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.