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The most striking thing we learned was that in so many companies—even companies trying to do true, technology‐powered products and services—product teams were too often not allowed to work the way they needed to.
“My dream—the solution—is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact.”
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
“Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.”
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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