Gaurav Gupta

“a business leader’s job is to create great teams that do amazing work on time.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“He said maybe some fear isn’t so bad. When you’re taking on a mountain the magnitude of Mt. Fuji or K2, you have to bring oxygen. It’s scary. But if you go up and a storm comes, you can go back to base camp, and nobody’s going to tell you that you’re a failure. I loved that because it expressed so well that not only were we engaged in a great challenge, which would involve setbacks, but we were also on a great adventure.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“When engineers start to whine about a process you’re trying to implement, you want to really dig into what’s bothering them, because they hate senseless bureaucracy and stupid process. But they don’t mind discipline at all.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“Instilling belief in the practice gets easier as managers come on board. The greater the density of great team builders you achieve, the more you can spread the practice organically.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility