“Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: “Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“Skeptics often treat size, regulation, perceived complexity, legacy technology, or some other special characteristic of the domain in which they operate as a barrier to change.”
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
“After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith”
― Lean For Dummies
― Lean For Dummies
“the most serious barrier is to be found in organizational culture, leadership, and strategy.”
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
“No major piece of work should be fully funded before we have evidence to support the business and economic model on which it is based, and this exploration must be done with small, cross-functional teams with a limited runway,”
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
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