If you're going to create trust and trusting relationships with your directs, then, you're going to have to talk to them frequently about things that are important to them.
“Traction and product development are of equal importance and should each get about half of your attention. This is what we call the 50 percent rule: spend 50 percent of your time on product and 50 percent on traction. Building”
― Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
― Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
“As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets.”
― Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
― Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“The goal was to get employees to distill a pitch into its purest essence, to start from something the customer might see—the public announcement—and work backward.”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“The long-term value of an enterprise is not captured by the value of its products and intellectual property but rather by its ability to continuously increase the value it provides to customers — and to create new customers — through innovation.”
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
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