Mo Shafieeha

1. Focus first on the longer-term strategic aspirations2. Take time to survey the scene3. Be structured about selecting the right blueprint4. Go beyond lines and boxes5. Be rigorous about drafting in talent6. Identify the necessary mind-set shifts—and change those mind-sets7. Establish metrics that measure short- and long-term success8. Make sure... See more

Mindsets

• Sees the whole picture


• Engages different perspectives to see new leverage points in complex systems


• Looks for relationships and how parts interact


• Looks for unintended consequences


• Thinks circularly; not linearly


• Embraces complexity


• Questions assumptions

The word 'culture' comes from the Latin word 'colere', which means to tend or cultivate. An organization's culture is how the leader cares for its business, stakeholders, and employees. You can see it in how decisions are made – top-down or bottom-up.

Technology cost curves: the speed with which solar power cost fell beat the predictions by ~6X https://nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-should-you-have-kids.html?referringSource=articleShare…

Designing products that address fundamental user problems is what UX and product design have always meant to me. We ought to think of usable and useful products as providing the most of what user experience entails; foremost of all, meeting user needs. Because of this, it is important to understand product thinking.

The biggest issue I have with the bloated addressable market slides we see in company pitches is that when we fast forward 5-10 years, the actual revenue generated by those companies will not even come close to equalizing the addressable market size. The addressable market size slide is usually the least useful in a pitch deck since it is too... See more

As a result, design principles are either misused, misinterpreted, or even abandoned because complex statements are hard to comprehend, apply, and remember. The 'Don't Make Me Think' principle by Steve Krug is straightforward and easy to remember. In order to speed up and simplify their design processes, Salesforce and Airbnb have developed... See more