They like fighters. They like sportsmen. They like guys who don’t quit. They like guys who play the game the right way.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
– Ernest Hemingway
In today’s world, where we are constantly connected, the office should be reconceived as a gathering place to communicate ideas and to reinforce personal bonds. Beyond that, employees should be given the respect, and the responsibility, to manage their own schedules and complete their work on their own time, from wherever they choose.
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
Clayton Christensen paraphrased by Jason Fried
Most companies are looking to “wow” with their products, when in reality what they should be looking for is an “of course” reaction from their users.
… as long as it doesn’t compromise the most important thing which is focus on the product. If they focus too much on- one signal might actually end up being that they end up launching an enterprise division. To me that would actually be a very worrisome sign. It would imply that they’re no longer actually paying attention at the user but at the buyer. Especially if the buyer and the user are two different people because enterprise by itself defines not the user but essentially an organizational institutionalized buyer. And that isn’t really something you optimize for. You shouldn’t optimize for that And those who do have fine businesses but they don’t change the world and they don’t stay on top for long which is really the crucial, crucial question here for Apple.
Horace Dediu on “what are the pitfalls that could cause Apple to stumble” just after minute 59 of “White Knights and White Nights”
