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“TechShop collects expensive manufacturing machinery and offers subscribers a small monthly fee ($125 to $175, depending on the location) for unlimited access to its assets.”
― Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours
― Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours
“The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.”
― Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
― Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
“We’re about to run our heads against the same unyielding barrier, and once again, the brass seem to have concluded that our approach isn’t working because we’re not running at the wall fast enough.”
― Lines of Departure
― Lines of Departure
“It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.” —Alan Kay”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“point of view is worth 80 IQ points”—a”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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