Growth came from product innovations, unique acquisition channels that their competition hadn’t considered, and rigorous optimization driven by analytics and a deep understanding of their customers.
“Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far. Your role is to improve the purpose, people, and process of your team to get as high a multiplier effect on your collective outcome as you can.”
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
“Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.”
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
― The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
“technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.”
― The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
― The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
“You have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Ark
― Ark
“The essence of leadership is not getting overwhelmed by circumstances.”
― Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
― Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
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