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But this is one of the quirks of professional tennis, too: the sight of elite players – adults! – shouting at their parents sitting courtside during matches. It’s the one time they know their parents won’t shout back.
“One is that it matters. it is not just a department that I can delegate away. it is smack in the middle of every major company effort we have and is critical to almost every aspect of daily operations.”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“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?”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“four OKR superpowers: focus, alignment, tracking, and stretching.”
― Measure What Matters
― Measure What Matters
“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.”
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World
“Fear was a poison. Fear was a prison. Fear was the bridesmaid of regret, the butcher of ambition, the bleak forever between forwards and backwards.”
― Darkdawn
― Darkdawn
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