Learning to fly is not pretty but flying is.
Innovation was being replaced by bureaucracy. Teamwork was being replaced by internal politics. We were falling behind.
I must work hard – not to climb the ladder, but to do important work.
Part of my response is to urge policymakers to broaden their thinking about the role of technology in economic development. Too often they focus on trying to attract Silicon Valley companies in hopes they will open offices locally. They want Silicon Valley satellites. Instead, they should be working on plans to make the best technologies available to local entrepreneurs so that they can organically grow more jobs at home – not just in high-tech industries but in every economic sector.
The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.
Despite all this rapid change in the computing industry, we are still at the beginning of the digital revolution.
Consistency over time is trust.
I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules.
Business s humanity’s most resilient, iterative and productive mechanism for creating change in the world. – John Batelle.
Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that “the future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
But envy is negative and outer-directed, not driven from within, and so I knew that it wouldn’t carry us very far down the path to true renewal.
We must respond to opportunities before they become conventional wisdom.
But our lawyer, Ira Rubinstein, said something interesting. “Hey, maybe you should give up your green card and go back to an H1B.
After all, our products may come and go, but our values are timeless.
My approach is to lead with a sense of purpose and pride in what we do, not envy or combativeness.
Compete vigorously and with passion in the face of uncertainty and intimidation.
What I remembered was the lesson that went unheeded: the urgent need to build shared context, trust, and credibility with your team.
Passion, toil, and training can help you to soar.
But as management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
We live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile. It is you.