“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth”
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“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth”
The problem, McLean decided, was the maritime mindset: Pan-Atlantic’s staff, experienced in the slow-moving ways of the maritime industry, did not know how to sell to an industrial traffic manager who cared not about ships, but about getting freight to the customer on schedule at low cost. McLean brought in a team of aggressive young trucking execu
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High-level insight
Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.
Author describes different processes to set product team ... See more
Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.
Author describes different processes to set product team ... See more
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Many software companies are started opportunistically, so their product roadmaps are evolutionary. But the CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad built Rippling through intelligent design. Each product has a whitepaper, each funding round has a written memo. Releasing these memos publicly means Rippling is unafraid of competition: if you give your produc... See more