Knowing that ideas can come from anybody allows a leader never to miss an opportunity for innovation.

The pendulum cannot continue to swing toward an extreme, or reside at an extreme, forever. Those who believe that it will eventually lose huge sums.

Variable rewards are one of the most powerful tools companies implement to hook users;

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.

Mastering this skill means that you can knock down two of the biggest barriers preventing your reports from doing great work — unclear expectations and inadequate skills — so that they know exactly where to aim and how to hit the target

In the Lean Startup model, we are rehabilitating learning with a concept I call validated learning. Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup’s present and future business prospects.

Investment in DevOps was highly correlated to software delivery performance.

The better you know yourself, the less susceptible you are to the distortions of people with immature motivations.

It falls on leaders to continually keep perspective on the strategic mission and remind the team that they are part of the greater team and the strategic mission is paramount.

In order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, you should do three things. Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.