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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017

      People underestimate the effects of team morale. That is all.

      14 replies 132 retweets 349 likes
    2. Mike North  🤯‏ @michaellnorth 22 Sep 2017
      Replying to @wycats

      Energizing/motivating your team is one of the easiest paths to a productivity boost.

      1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
    3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
      Replying to @michaellnorth

      It's also one of the few ways you can pay for a productivity boost that pays for itself by 10x in a trivial amount of time.

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
      Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

      If people were really measuring productivity, morale would be at the top of everyone's agenda.

      3 replies 28 retweets 52 likes
    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
      Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

      When someone gives me a technical plan that includes an assumption that low morale is acceptable, I stop listening.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
      Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

      "we'll just make everyone <do a very annoying thing> and then everything will be awesome". Can't recoup those prod costs w/ any tech wins.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
      Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

      Similarly, if the plan's to market your way to success in a way that tanks morale, technical excellence better not matter or game over.

      10:04 AM - 22 Sep 2017
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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          Even if you think it's really about having the right talent, guess what affects talent acquisition and retention. That's right, morale!

          1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          Give people a sense of purpose coupled with a culture that prizes product excellence and you'll go miles.

          1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          Oh, and in general, it's bad for team morale if you have to tell prospective users to use your product because it's good for them.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          Eat Your Vegetables is an implicit admission that your product is worse, and tells your team that they're not up to building something great

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          Even if your product has genuine deficiencies, focus on its great qualities (in terms of user value) and your team will be motivated to ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          ... work harder to make those qualities shine. Make excuses in your marketing and your team will double down on excuses.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          And no surprise: a team doubling down on excuses has bad morale, and it infects the community of users.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          One concrete example, in case this feels abstract to some. Even while Apple was still getting its sea legs in 1997 after SJ returned, ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          ... the biggest change was a sense of purpose and a return to a belief in building excellent products ("insanely great"). That not only ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        11. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          ... motivated the engineers to build great stuff (iMac) but it also got the community of users out of a beleaguered malaise, which ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        12. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          ... further motivated the engineers to work on great stuff. It's easy to focus entirely on the impact of great leadership in the ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        13. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          ... abstract, and certainly the ideas that went into good products matter a great deal, but there are always good ideas lurking around ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        14. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Sep 2017
          Replying to @wycats @michaellnorth

          ... the toxic consequence of bad morale is to bury those ideas, while the virtuous cycle of good morale uncovers them. Fin.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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