Amir Mohtasebi

“Trust Beats Control and Open Beats Closed As we saw with Valve software, autonomy can be a powerful motivator in the age of the Exponential Organization. The Millennial generation is naturally independent, digitally native and resistant to top-down control and hierarchies. To take full advantage of this new workforce and hang on to top talent, companies must embrace an open environment. Google has done just that. As we outlined in Chapter Four, its Objectives and Key Results (OKR) system is fully transparent across the company. Any Googler can look up the OKRs of other colleagues and teams to see what they’re trying to achieve and how successful they’ve been in the past. Such transparency takes a considerable amount of cultural and organizational courage, but Google has found that the openness it engenders is worth any discomfort.”
― Salim Ismail, Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours

“If you are relying on innovation solely from within your company, you’re dead.”
― Salim Ismail, Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours

“A key objective of the lean movement is to teach everyone to untangle intermingled processes in order to see clearly the specific process that they manage or touch as it flows from start to finish.”
― Jim Womack, Gemba Walks

“In recent years a fashionable alternative to “make money and grow sales” was that organizational purpose was to steadily grow shareholder value. But now the king of shareholder value, General Electric’s retired chairman Jack Welch, has acknowledged—thank goodness—that this is a result, not a strategy for achieving this result.2 Now”
― Jim Womack, Gemba Walks