Gaia Soykok

Example: Segway is archetypal wrong in positioning. He went on the next level of human transport, but then it comes to this thing on good morning America. everyone is disappointed. they can not place it.

the starting point - the baseline rewards should be enough and fair - the salary , wages, benefits. Without a healthy baseline, motivation of any sort is difficult and often impossible. (FAIR keyword is important here)

Do this, and you’ll get that” is not really very different from “Do this or here’s what will happen to you.”

Gokul thinks if you want to hire best-of-class PMs, go to best-of-class companies and hire from them rather than a person.

Sawyer Effect as “practices that can either turn play into work or work into play,” after Tom Sawyer, who tricked his friends into painting a fence for him by convincing them it was fun

Ralph Merkle wrote about Bitcoin as life:Bitcoin is the first example of a new form of life. It lives and breathes on the internet. It lives because it can pay people to keep it alive. It lives because it performs a useful service that people will pay it to perform. … It can’t be stopped. It can’t even be interrupted. If nuclear war destroyed half... See more

The Rendanheyi model follows“human value comes first”, reinvents the traditional organization hierarchy by building EMCs that feature self-organization, create the best user experience based on their needs, and realizes decentralization and disintermediation. Coevolution: all parties in the ecosystem evolve together.

author Carla O’Dell reports in People, Performance, and Pay that a survey of 1,600 organizations by the American Productivity Center discovered little in the way of active employee involvement in organizations that used small-group incentive plans.

Julie did not want to write a book at first until a publisher reached out. - she did not see a unique POV- she did not see herself as a writer's career