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I had the capital but I did not have an idea. I knew the carriage business, and I knew the carriage-tire business. I had no hankering after the carriage business, for it had become one of keen competition in cheap models.
Men and Rubber
Harvey S. Firestone
I've never liked the term "creative process." It seems misleading.
Originality isn't a process, but a habit of mind. Original thinkers
throw off new ideas about whatever they focus on, like an angle
grinder throwing off sparks. They can't help it.
How to Do Great Work
paulgraham.com
Given the situation, I was actually pretty lucky. Sun Tzu in his classic work The Art of War warns that giving the team a task that it cannot possibly perform is called crippling the army. In my case, I did not cripple the team, but I screwed up my priorities. The right thing to do would have been to make the hard decision up front: what was more important a) maximizing each quarter or b) increasing predictability. The instruction only made sense if the answer was (b).
When Employees Misinterpret Managers | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
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