Marc Vandyck

Innovation & Agile whisperer 🧩#TrueScrumTheWorld᠅Scrum & Scrum@Scale trainer by Scrum Inc᠅LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®᠅Design Sprint᠅M30 #KeepLearningKeepPracticing

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Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2023! How did you do? #Duolingo365

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“There are measures of focus, and one of them is how often you say no.”- Steve Jobs

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Shortly after Steve Jobs returned as the CEO of Apple in 1997, he met with Jony Ive, Apple’s Senior VP of industrial design.

Apple had 40 products on the market.

“Jony, how many things have you said no to?” Jobs asked.

Ive was confused.

“You have to understand,” Jobs said,

“There are measures of focus, and one of them is how often you say no.”

“What focus means,” Jobs taught Ive, “is saying no to something that you—with every bone in your body—think is a phenomenal idea, and you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you're focusing on something else.”

Jobs walked up to a whiteboard and drew a 2 x 2 grid. On top, he wrote “Consumer” and “Professional.” Down the side, “Portable” and “Desktop.”

Four products—meet Apple’s new radically focused product line, Jobs said.

After that meeting, over the next two decades, Jobs and Ive—focused on making a few high-quality products while saying no to everything else—transformed a dying, near-bankrupt company into one of the most valuable companies in the world, worth over $2.9 trillion.

Takeaway 1:

The philosopher Marcus Aurelius pointed out that the focus of doing less “brings a double satisfaction.”

You get the satisfaction of having fewer things to do. And…you get the satisfaction of doing those fewer things at a higher level.

You get “to do less, better.”

During Steve Jobs’ first visit to Jony Ive’s design studio, he looked around, and then he said, “Fuck, you’ve not been very effective, have you?”

It was clear to Jobs that Ive was full of ideas and potential he wasn’t able to execute or fulfill under Apple’s previous leadership.

In the Jobs era of “doing less, better,” Ive was very effective.

Some products he designed include: iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods.

Takeaway 2:

Even though he slashed the product line down to four products, Jobs loved to have and hear ideas.

“Steve used to say to me,” Ive said, “and he used to say this a lot, ‘Hey, Jony, here’s a dopey idea.’ And sometimes they were: really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful.

But sometimes they took the air from the room, and they left us both completely silent.”

It made me think of what Jerry Seinfeld identifies as the ultimate skill of the artist: “taste and discernment.”

“It’s one thing to create,” Seinfeld says. It’s one thing to have ideas.

“The other is you have to choose. ‘What are we going to do, and what are we not going to do?’” What are we going to add to the product line, and what are we not going to add?

“This is a gigantic aspect of [artistic] survival,” Seinfeld continues.

“It’s kind of unseen—what’s picked and what is discarded—but mastering that is how you stay alive.”

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“Everything just got simpler. That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity.” — Steve Jobs

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#workation 2: #LSPLATAM23 here we come❣️

#firsttime #brazil #LSP #legoseriousplay

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To my Jira Align experts in my network: my client is looking for an implementer/setting up our Jira Align.

Who’s available quickly?

#jira #jiraalign #network

FYI Tobias Windbrake

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Will my role be obsolete in the (near) future? 🧐

#AI #enrich #future https://t.co/rDMpQme2eb

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Many of you know that I've been working together with TME for 5 years now. But we only used 10-15% of my time so far for agile training.
Now, I’m happy to share officially that TME will make use of my full potential starting a new position as Enterprise A…https://t.co/kpVFzwU5b2

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The last super-duper #sushi supper for Q1❣️🇯🇵

#foodelicious #GOODLIFE #travelpassion #enjoylife @ Tokyo Haneda International Airport Terminal https://t.co/ogEUq9DcQx

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またね 🥰 See you next year #hokkaido ❣️ #ilovehokkaido @ Asahikawa, Hokkaido https://t.co/M8ExaRO9TI

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Never seen soooooo much snow❣️❣️❣️#amazing #purenature #hokkaido @ Iwamizawa, Hokkaido https://t.co/G3XqdWSH64

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Finally! Hokkaido here I come ❣️ #nipon #traveltheworld #disconnect @ Chubu Centrair International Airport, Nagoya https://t.co/HaXBgQ0Nwf

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ENJOY 2023, you all! We wish you, your families and your loved ones a healthy, prosperous and very exciting New Year 🎊🍾✨🥳🤩 @ Toyohashi, Aichi https://t.co/xjJV85kTDb

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ENJOY 2023, you all!
We wish you, your families and your loved ones a very healthy, prosperous and very exciting New Year 🎊🍾✨🥳🤩

My Objectives for 2023

1. Less clients (-10%):
#WHY is this important?
To Focus on better quality time with…https://t.co/JfPar6KMgX

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Change?! No change in 2023❣️
Wishing you all a healthy, prosperous and exciting New Year 🎊🍾✨🤩

#happynewyear #happynewyear2023 @ Toyohashi, Aichi https://t.co/5LII5rqWN9

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Ready to wrap up 2022 in Japan 🇯🇵 .
It was a fine year 🍾

#happyholidays #happynewyear @ Finnair Lounge, Terminal 2, Helsinki Vantaa Airport, Finland https://t.co/CBi2kjbeR3

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Today was my last day at OptiGen, Luminus. I had the pleasure to work with cool and fun people for 1,5 years. 
I remember our first (in-person) encounters: our team building day and the Scrum training, remote and onsite right after the Covid-19 lockdowns.…https://t.co/wcME1S6LMy

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I’m a Superstar Learner! What’s your Duolingo learner style? #Duolingo365

#KeepLearningKeepPracticing

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Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2022! How did you do? #Duolingo365

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Last day of my #workation in Japan 🇯🇵🥲
It’s harder to leave Japan than Belgium 🥹

1. Best food in the world
2. Cleanest place in the world
3. Best hospitality in the world

#lovejapan #foodelicious #hospitality https://t.co/R0Xar5p7mU