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AARON LEVIEThe IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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If you don’t go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don’t think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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I’m obsessed with speed. I’m always asking myself, ‘Why can’t we do things faster? Why can’t it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?’
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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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