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Hay que estar más preocupado por los hombres que tienen que hacer las cosas, que por las cosas que tienen que hacer los hombres. English translation: You have to be more concerned about the men who have to do things, than about the things that men have to do.
— Carlos LlanoAuthor: Carlos Llano | Subject: Management
Psychological safety takes off the brakes that keep people from achieving what’s possible. But it’s not the fuel that powers the car. In any challenging industry setting, leaders have two vital tasks. One, they must build psychological safety to spur learning and avoid preventable failures; two, they must set high standards and inspire and enable people to reach them.
— Amy EdmondsonAuthor: Amy Edmondson | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
When a startup launches, there have to be at least some users who really need what they're making — not just people who could see themselves using it one day, but who want it urgently. Usually this initial group of users is small, for the simple reason that if there were something that large numbers of people urgently needed and that could be built with … [ Read more ]
— Paul GrahamAuthor: Paul Graham | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation
[Sean] Ellis [has] found a leading [product/market fit] indicator: just ask users “how would you feel if you could no longer use the product?” and measure the percent who answer “very disappointed.” After benchmarking nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey, Ellis found that the magic number was 40%. Companies that struggled to find growth almost always had less than 40% of users … [ Read more ]
— Rahul VohraAuthor: Rahul Vohra | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Customer Related, Innovation, Management
To increase your product/market fit [...] spend half your time doubling down on what users already love and the other half on addressing what’s holding others back.
— Rahul VohraAuthor: Rahul Vohra | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Customer Related, Innovation, Management
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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The EconomistAs for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon WarshawskyMoney never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. ReillyIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore RooseveltThe uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts