Rands famous quotes

A milestone is less date and more definition.
-- Rands

#Definitions #Milestone

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
-- Rands

#Leader #Where You Are

Your work speaks for you.
-- Rands

#Speak

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.
-- Rands

#Ideas #Matter #Share

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.
-- Rands

#Annoyed #Watches #Awe

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.
-- Rands

#Fighting #People #Innovation

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.
-- Rands

#Nerd #Indicators #Inefficiency

A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.
-- Rands

#Teamwork #Mean #Toxic

When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.
-- Rands

#Jobs #Long #House

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
-- Rands

#Believe #Email #Laziness

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.
-- Rands

#Design #Decision #Irrelevant

One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correctly determine who on your team needs that piece of information to do their job.
-- Rands

#Jobs #Team #Simple

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.
-- Rands

#Business #Criticism #Entrepreneurship

If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.
-- Rands

#Pockets #Sitting #Minutes

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.
-- Rands

#Editors #Messy