How NASA's Pirate Paradigm Challenged The Status Quo — NOBL
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How NASA's Pirate Paradigm Challenged The Status Quo — NOBL
Questions for readers: Can your product teams openly experiment with new ideas and technology without spending large amounts of time on seeking approval and funding? Can you easily obtain funds for new technology-related work at any time of the year, or are you restricted to an annual cycle? What are your criteria for a successful investment? Is it
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Another of Jobs’s maxims at the retreat was “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” He wanted to instill a rebel spirit in his team, to have them behave like swashbucklers who were proud of their work but willing to commandeer from others. As Susan Kare put it, “He meant, ‘Let’s have a renegade feeling to our group. We can move fast. We
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- The best ideas emerge when the whole organizational ecosystem—not just its designers and engineers and certainly not just management—has room to experiment. 2. Those most exposed to changing externalities (new technology, shifting consumer base, strategic threats or opportunities) are the ones best placed to respond and most motivated to do so. 3.
Tim Brown • Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
The importance of agentic program managers to the success of the ARPA model isn’t surprising or new. The “aha” was that the only way to cut through the paradox of inconsistent process leading to consistent success was that the agentic program leader may be the only thing that’s important to get right; everything else may be cargo-culting.