Quotes from books I read recently

Hooked:  Automatic behaviors triggered by situational cues. Behaviors done with little or no conscious thought. Trigger: internal or external Action: Ease of performing and psychological motivation to do it. Variable reward: create craving Investment: time, data, effort, social capital or money. Habits are LIFO. Whenever new technology suddenly make a behavior easier, new possibilities are born. How google works: 70% of time to build product and 30% to shout about it. Products excellence is in iterations. If you can’t tell someone how to think, you have to create an environment where they can think freely. Think 10X not 10% "When considering candidates for a role, favor the ones with a track record of learning new things over the ones with a track record in that particular role." Think of platforms not products. Uber, youtube, google. What is the most exciting thing you do at work. Passionate people dont wear their passion on sleeves, they wear it in the heart. Technology is exponential, learning is linear Learning animals.growth mindset is about learning targets and goals. Specialist brings inherent bias. Process(how) of decision arrived, when, how it is executed. There are more than 130 million books in the world today. No business runs for evere, some find this chilling. We should find it inspiring. Hit refresh: Leadership means making choices and rallying teams around those choices.  Shared context, shared vision.  A leader musy see the external opportunities, internal capabilities and culture.  We live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mibile, it is you.  Why are we here, what do we do next.  We cannot fix what we can not measure, we can not prepare what we donot know.  Culture eats strategy for breakfast.  Culture is is complex system made up of individual mindsets.  Individual growth is important than bottom line. . Everyone  Should grow individually in their roles and lives.  You can own customer scenarios, but not code.  Where you should apply fixed and mindset(best practice)