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The three processes—people, strategy, and operations— remain the building blocks and heart of good execution. But as the economic, political, and business environments change, the ways in which they are carried out also change.
“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince”
― Liar's Poker
― Liar's Poker
“The astute investor Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.”
― Liar's Poker
― Liar's Poker
“Best of all, he gave us a rule of thumb about information in the markets that I later found useful: “Those who say don’t know, and those who know don’t say.”
― Liar's Poker
― Liar's Poker
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“At its root, Scrum is based on a simple idea: whenever you start a project, why not regularly check in, see if what you’re doing is heading in the right direction, and if it’s actually what people want? And question whether there are any ways to improve how you’re doing what you’re doing, any ways of doing it better and faster, and what might be keeping you from doing that.”
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism
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