Geoff Lamb

“four OKR superpowers: focus, alignment, tracking, and stretching.”
― John E. Doerr, Measure What Matters

“I’ve long believed that to effectively manage it is not only a critical competency but a significant predictor of company performance,” he explains. “One of these days, I’d like to create a hedge fund that invests in companies, taking long positions on companies with great it organizations that help the business win, and short the companies where it lets everyone down. I think we’d make a killing. What better way is there to force the next generation of ceos to give a shit about it?”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“the climate is warming, the world’s great ice sheets are melting, and the water is rising. This is not a speculative idea, or the hypothesis of a few wacky scientists, or a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Sea-level rise is one of the central facts of our time, as real as gravity. It will reshape our world in ways most of us can only dimly imagine.”
― Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World

“The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave