Laszlo Bock quotes

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. (Laszlo Bock)
It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back. View quote
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The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system. View quote
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What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else? View quote
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We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization. View quote
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Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are. View quote
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One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior. View quote
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I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing? View quote
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