Casper Zhao > Quotes

“The physics do not care about your intentions. They care about your specifications.”
― Casper Zhao, The Pressure Principle: Engineering Organizations That Thrive at Depth

“A company is not, at bottom, a product, a market position, or a headcount number. It is a machine for making decisions, thousands of them, most too small to notice individually, and everything a company becomes is simply the accumulated residue of how well that decision-making machine was designed.”
― Casper Zhao, A Plan Is Not A Strategy!: Why Most Companies Mistake Goals for Execution

“The executive who keeps his door open is not a radical democrat. The executive with the open door does not want your dissent to reach the board. (Ch. 5)”
― Casper Zhao, The Cult of Consensus: Emotional Intelligence as Your Mediocrity Insurance

“The sky you were taught as complete is not actually complete.”
― Casper Zhao, The Infinite Surface Area: The Opportunity Is Larger Than You Think: How to Win in the Age of Disruption