Quotes About Development

Robust social infrastructure doesn't just protect our democracy; it contributes to economic growth.

You have it in you already. You just sort of need to be exposed to these things and provide yourself an education. The library assumes the best out of people. The services it provides are founded upon the assumption that if given the chance, people will improve themselves.

Western definition of adolescence, as we'll soon see, does align remarkably well with the biblical definition of childhood.

he could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

a seed had been pressed into the soil of his soul, and had been watered, and would soon burst and sprout green and grow beyond all possibility of concealing.

The good leader serves others and leads others to maturity.

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Failure is a prerequisite to learning.

HYPERGROWTH FOR A COMPANY ALSO REQUIRES HYPERGROWTH OF THE PEOPLE INSIDE IT.

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible.

the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

Startups exist not just to make stuff, make money, or even serve customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. This

if you are asking, you're not there yet.

Paradoxalmente, quando a busca por perfeição é substituída pela disposição de experimentar e adaptar a ideia original, o resultado final é um produto mais perfeito.

Product managers figure out what features are likely to please customers; product designers then figure out how those features should look and feel.

Thus, the right way to think about the product development process in a Lean Startup is that it is responding to pull requests in the form of experiments that need to be run.

The common tendency of product development is to skip straight to the fourth question and build a solution before confirming that customers have the problem.

Si yo eligiera un empleado al azar de cualquier nivel, departamento o región, y ese empleado tuviera una idea absolutamente brillante que abriera una fuente de crecimiento radicalmente nueva, ¿qué tendría que hacer para llevar su idea a la práctica? ¿Dispone la empresa de las herramientas de gestión necesarias para ampliar esa idea a fin de que genere el máximo impacto, aun cuando no se ajuste a ninguna de las líneas de negocio actuales?

Startups do not yet know who their customer is or what their product should be.

Instead of working in separate departments, engineers and designers would work together side by side on one feature at a time. Whenever that feature was ready to be tested with customers, they immediately would release a new version of the product, which would go live on our website for a relatively small number of people.

the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.

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Failure is a prerequisite to learning. The