It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.
To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.
A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.
Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.
Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.
It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.
I love 'Safe Men. ' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.
Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.