Growing Up Fast Quotes

“To cope at these poorly managed firms, workers who would otherwise be self-motivated switch their thinking to a kind of short-term survival strategy, where they do whatever is incentivized while remaining open to new opportunities based on their real motivations - usually finding those opportunities outside their current firm.”
― Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Growing Up Fast: How New Agile Practices Can Move Marketing And Innovation Past The Old Business Stalemates

“Consider: having feathers is correlated with being able to fly, but feathers do not cause flight. Lift causes flight”
― Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Growing Up Fast: How New Agile Practices Can Move Marketing And Innovation Past The Old Business Stalemates

“When you take out the trash yourself, it makes you think about ways to reduce the weight of the bin”
― Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Growing Up Fast: How New Agile Practices Can Move Marketing And Innovation Past The Old Business Stalemates

“Agile promotes networks over hierarchies, creativity over uniformity, human over mechanism, and customer need over political agenda”
― Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Growing Up Fast: How New Agile Practices Can Move Marketing And Innovation Past The Old Business Stalemates

“In the agile world, success doesn't mean knowing exactly what the plan is before you begin. Success instead means having enough money left over to try an emergent opportunity after the deliberate plan has failed.”
― Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Growing Up Fast: How New Agile Practices Can Move Marketing And Innovation Past The Old Business Stalemates