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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
These operations played such a salient role in Apple’s success that by 2011 the unassuming character behind them, chief operating officer Tim Cook, was handpicked by Steve Jobs to succeed him as CEO. Cook, unlike Jobs, wasn’t a charismatic leader or a product visionary, but his appointment was a recognition that he’d established unparalleled
... See morePatrick McGee • Apple in China
A PM’s role in defining product strategy differs between companies. At some companies, the strategy is “bottom up,” where key decisions often come from developers and PMs. At other companies, the strategy is more “top down,” where the direction is generally decided by executives and PMs, and developers are left to implement it.
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro • Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology (Cracking the Interview & Career)
The point is that underlying technologies change, but, after a point, technology market shares don’t change and so they’re highly predictable.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Unit presidents and product P&L owners: Delivering a personalized offering
David C. Edelman • Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI
PCs could rely on a global industry of standardized, interchangeable parts, and they didn’t have to spend a dime on software R&D—that was handled by Microsoft.