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One bit of advice I give writers is to see each draft as a hypothesis or experiment: your job is to gather data to test that version of the manuscript and figure out what’s wrong with it. If it fails, it doesn’t mean that you have failed, but only that the current experiment has. So you redesign it. Shift your emphasis off the personal and back toward the product. Perspective is everything!
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Rob Fitzpatrick und Adam Rosen
4. When innovating, aim for “most advanced, yet acceptable” (MAYA). People generally prefer evolution over complete reinvention. However, maintaining some idiosyncrasies, or “the right amount of weird,” can create distinctiveness and interest. For example, Jaguar has a unique and memorable light switch and Veuve Clicquot has a defining yellow label.
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Lenny Rachitsky
The primary challenge in business is how to enable a group of people to work together effectively to deliver value to customers. **Value is defined as benefit compared with cost.** Large organizations tend to organize people into functional groups and hand work across in a sort of relay race from customer need to customer satisfaction. The problem with these functional silos is they end up operating not as a single relay team but as entirely separate teams that train independently and may have differing goals.
Silos are effective for personnel management but not for cross-organizational flow.
Understanding Work as a Flow
IT Revolution
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