Best 12 quotes of Rands on MyQuotes

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

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

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

I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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