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Brian Chesky of Airbnb, who said simply, “Build a product people love. Hire amazing people. What else is there to do? Everything else is fake work.”
“The output of a manager is the output of the organizational units under his or her supervision or influence.”
― High Output Management
― High Output Management
“Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.”
― High Output Management
― High Output Management
“To get acceptable quality at the lowest cost, it is vitally important to reject defective material at a stage where its accumulated value is at the lowest possible level. Thus, as noted, we are better off catching a bad raw egg than a cooked one, and screening out our college applicant before he visits Intel. In short, reject before investing further value.”
― High Output Management
― High Output Management
“Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.”
― High Output Management
― High Output Management
“But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.”
― High Output Management
― High Output Management
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