Quote Of The Week

2nd Quote of the Week 49 " The child is grown. The dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. " ― Roger Waters ( Pink Floyd , " Comfortably Numb " lyrics ) David Gilmour 's incredible second  guitar solo (4:31) that follows these final lines trumps Roger's lyrics if you ask me: "Comfortably Numb" is one of Pink Floyd's best-known songs, notable for its two guitar solos . [4]  In 2005, it became the last song ever performed by Waters, Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright , and drummer Nick Mason  together. ...  Gilmour said the song represented the last time he and Waters were able to work together constructively. ...  Eventually, the group compromised by using the orchestral elements for the main portion and using Gilmour's stripped-down mix for final guitar solo. [8] Waters said: "That's all we could do without somebody 'winning' and somebody 'losing.' And of course, who lost, if you like, was the band, becaus...

Quote of the Week 48 " You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave . " ― Don Henley &  Glenn Frey ( Eagles , " Hotel California " song text ) One of the greatest guitar solos of all time - just after these final lines at 4:18 .

Quote of the Week 31 " The higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. " ― Esther Crawford   Triggered by Esther's tweet about working with Elon Musk at Twitter: Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… pic.twitter.com/bw7CHhk0Xg — Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) July 26, 2023

Quote of the Week 30 " The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. " ― Peter F. Drucker   Triggered by a discussion about leadership on Wednesday last week where I claimed that "Someone is a true leader when people follow the person voluntarily." just to find out that Peter Drucker has expressed a similar thought well before I ever did: " The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. To gain followers requires influence but does not exclude the lack of integrity in achieving this ."

Quote of the Week 12 " Business outcomes measure the health of the business. Product outcomes measure a change in customer behavior. " ― Teresa Torres Triggered by a discussion of how to align product development goals with business goals in the context of an OKR initiative. My take which is  influenced by T. Torres and others including M. Cagan and T. Herbig :  In the triangle of "business", "customer", and "product", do not try to directly derive the product objectives from the [internal] business objectives, instead look at the [external] business impact for the customer first. See also " What’s the Difference Between OKRs and Outcomes? " by Teresa Torres: "Product teams don’t typically have direct influence over business metrics like increasing revenue. But they do have the ability to directly influence product outcomes—changes in customer behavior—that can ultimately contribute to business outcomes." As Melissa Suzuno st...

Quote of the Week 4 "W hat makes great products: it is not process; it is content. " ― Steve Jobs Triggered by the content of the video clip in Marty Cagan's " Master Class " presentation @ 19:25 minutes. See also: Cited by many including Max Pucher : "You know what it is? People get confused. Companies get confused. When they start getting bigger they want to replicate their original success. And they start to think that somehow there is some magic in the process of how that success was created. So they start to try to institutionalize the process across the company. And before very long people get very confused and think that the process is the content. That was ultimately the downfall of IBM. IBM has the best process people in the world; they just forgot about the content. And that’s what happened a little bit at Apple, too. We had a lot of people who were great at management process; they just didn’t have a clue as to the content. And in my career I fo...

Quote of the Week 44 "Trust, engagement, and happiness are outcomes. If you treat them like your inputs, you'll never get them." ― Leandro Herrero   A quote from Herrero's book " The Flipping Point " cited here . " There is a lot of confusion around inputs and outputs in Culture Change. Many organizations agree on broad values and directions for their culture and put things like "Trust, Engagement, and Happiness" in their value statements. But this is the output, the result. The input are behaviours. "