The Best Product? A Great Team
An exploration of the key elements and attributes necessary for constructing and sustaining high-performing teams, drawing insights from Steve Jobs, ARPA, and Xerox PARC.
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
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almost everything great in the company happened in teams. That was my pitch in the talk: start treating teams, not individuals, as the fundamental building block of the organization.
Jonathan Rosenberg • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable products”—ever
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
But Jobs had latched onto what he believed was a key management lesson from his Macintosh experience: You have to be ruthless if you want to build a team of A players. “It’s too easy, as a team grows, to put up with a few B players, and they then attract a few more B players, and soon you will even have some C players,” he recalled. “The Macintosh
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Often, we see this brilliance in early versions of products—born from founder-built brute force and passion—only to see it fade with scale. Ultimately, you are only as good as your team, so you better craft it intentionally and with heart. The company becomes your great work. The best designed of these organizations become durable as they scale and... See more
Design Literacy
Inside Apple: The Secrets Behind the Past and Future Success of Steve Jobs's Iconic Brand
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