...in a comment on a comment to another post. I think that it bears repeating...[changed]
Steve Jobs said, "people don't know what they want until we give it to them". He was right. We need to hold that thought in our heads, for we are prone to obidging the loudest compainers, which we shouldn't.
If I hear the word, "stakeholder" in a meeting my mind says, "an opinionated shouter that we'd be wise to ignore if we want this thing to work".
Jobs got things wrong, he got things right, what he never did was to produce something designed by a committee that decided an outcome based on listening to those who shouted the loudest. Jobs produced lovely things that we didn't know that we needed. Everyone else listened to what their customers wanted, produced crap and then scrambled to build cheaper, crappier versions of what Apple had done. And they mostly failed.
They failed because they listened to their 'stakeholders'.
Feedback is important but much more important is filtering it. If you just do what the latest shouter wants you to do, are you really doing anything?
