Paulo Branco

“no one seemed to be thinking about how the “scandal” was affecting the lives of WE Charity’s beneficiaries. Her constant refrain was “The biggest loss was to the children.”
― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

“I have never seen more waste than I find in large companies that are running feature teams. This is especially the case when that company has outsourced significant parts of their engineering to one of the big firms.”
― Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

“Csikszentmihalyi told me, “People seem to concentrate best when the demands on them are a bit greater than usual, and they are able to give more than usual. If there is too little demand on them, people are bored. If there is too much for them to handle, they get anxious. Flow occurs in that delicate zone between boredom and anxiety.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“Teamwork, open lines of communication, cooperation, listening, and speaking one’s mind—rudiments of social intelligence”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence