

“product management must focus first and foremost on delivering outcomes that customers actually care about.”
― Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management
― Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management

“People find power when it dawns on them that their true success isn’t rooted in you helping them. It’s grounded in you helping them help themselves.”
― Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core
― Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core

“thus, as the organization grows, an increasing proportion of energy diverts to managing the internal mass rather than contributing to the outside world. Combine this with another Druckerian truth: The accomplishments of a single right person in a key seat dwarf the combined accomplishment of dividing the seat among multiple B-players.”
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

“And you seem to spend a lot of energy on the question of how to be successful. But that is the wrong question.” He paused, then like the Zen master thwacking the table with a bamboo stick: “The question is: how to be useful!” A great teacher can change your life in thirty seconds.”
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

“Resist the temptation to redesign seats on the bus to specific personalities (except for the exceptionally rare genius),”
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
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