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McAfee: Rapid iteration is best even for mission-critical systems
“This iterative approach is the way to learn quickly and improve, even with what you're trying to do is very mission critical and failure intolerant.”
McAfee: Employees Seek Status by Becoming Gatekeepers in Approval Loops
“One way you get status inside this thing called the company where you spend so many of your waking hours is to be in the loop. And so subconsciously, almost all the time, we humans, we want to be part of the process. We want to be in the loop. We want to be co…”
McAfee: Nothing improves the human condition more than technological progress
“I think in general,
When we analyze these very powerful technologies, we conclude that nothing improves the human condition and the state of nature more than technological progress.”
McAfee: True Ownership Means Less Cross-Functional Coordination and Hierarchy
“It's also, in some sense, the opposite of cross-functional coordination and process and structure and hierarchy. Now, I'm not saying that ownership equals chaos or equals anarchy, but it involves a lot less of all of those things than we became fond of in the …”
Tech Upstarts Upgraded the Core Organizational Technology of the Company
“I think they've upgraded the technology that is the company.”
McAfee: Rapid execution and feedback beat upfront planning after an MVP
“Peter's insight, the insight of a lot of geeks that I work with is that you need to do some planning. You need a minimum viable plan. After that, the only way you're going to learn about reality and learn about what the customer wants or learn about how long y…”
McAfee: Amazon Teams That Minimized Cross-Dependencies Were Most Successful
“The teams that worked the hardest to reduce their dependencies were the ones that were most successful later on.”
McAfee: Overconfidence evolved as a feature to attract social coalitions
“Robert Trivers, the most important evolutionary biologist since Darwin. Trivers said the reason we are overconfident is because confidence is valuable for individual members of a very social species. If you believe that you're really, really good, you will app…”
McAfee: Overconfident leaders inevitably overinvest in expensive pet projects
“Overconfidence will make you invest way too much money in, I don't know, like the metaverse, for example, or the fire phone, or your pet project. Overconfident successful leaders will have a very strong tendency To take their organizations in bad directions, w…”