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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

Aaron Levie

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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Change Jobs Latter Sometime Tried Way
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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Cause Done Percentage Stress Time
Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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Building Incumbent Infeasible Technical Thing
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Incumbent IT Organisation Organization Relationship Winning World
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Adoption Consumer DNA Easier Mean
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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Dad Education Mom Pretty Serious Teacher
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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Focus Long Term Today Tomorrow
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.
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Favor Innovation Problem Stubborn Tech
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Bare Build Need Opportunity People Tomorrow
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.
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Business Determined Organize Productive Two
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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Internet Newspaper Retail Store Wrong
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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Build Innovation Need People Problem Solve
Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Building Custom Modularize Oppose Platform Technology
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Catch Early Late Too Try Trying

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

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