I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a… — Rands Copy Share Image
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. — Rands Copy Share
When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job… — Rands Copy Share
Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something… — Rands Copy Share
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the… — Rands Copy Share
Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant. — Rands Copy Share
Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency. — Rands Copy Share
I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together.… — Rands Copy Share
If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn… — Rands Copy Share
