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Since starting Qulture.Rocks, we've noticed a gigantic opportunity in helping companies implement some system that could serve as a management backbone around which everything in the company could revolve and organize.
Performance appraisal is a structured assessment of a team member's individual performance over a given period of time, the goal of which is to improve the company's performance by improving employee performance.
This week I'm doing something different. In the past 10 days, I've been pretty busy taking care of my newborn daughter!!!! So I've just compiled links to the most interesting stuff I've read in the past few days, kinda like a super pumped "suggested readings" section of most of my past emails.
I've just finished Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. It's crazy how the book seems to be so related to many other things that are either happening in the world or in my head.
"Disruptive innovation" probably doesn't mean what you think it means. The term was first coined by Clayton Christensen on his The Innovator's Dilemma to mean the process in which an attacking company creates a simpler, cheaper offering of some incumbent's product or service and wins customers that are overwhelmed by the more complex and expensive offerings of established players.
What separates great product teams from mediocre ones is how often they get those assumptions right, and/or how quickly they iterate when wrong. As a rule of thumb, if your OKRs - more specifically, your key results - don't come out of Mixpanel, you're probably doing it wrong.
The Bay Area is where everything we're doing comes from. It's where software was born as an industry, and arguably where the world's best entrepreneurs flock to. It's also where Steve Jobs grew up, where he met Woz, where he started Apple, where he invested in Pixar, where he started NeXT.
Slack is a messaging app. Basically ICQ for companies, with a shiny UI layer and some cool integrations. It used to compete with a product called Hipchat, from Atlassian, but the now-public company ended up absorbing the aussie product in an acquisition. Most recently, Microsoft launched Teams, an offering that's really similar in most senses to Slack's.