Gaurav Gupta

“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

“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

“That respect for one another’s intelligence and genuine desire to discover the bases of colleagues’ views drove intense mutual questioning and kept it mostly productive and civil, if often quite colorful.”
― 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