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Nessie000 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatically wrong?

Hi,

Please have a look at this:

Be merciless in weeding out product lines and their myriad versions and extensions that create unnecessary complexity. You need fewer and better products, and you need to have the best product people possible thinking about making things better, faster, and more efficiently.

I think the bold sentence is grammatically wrong, isn't it?

Many thanks,

Nessie.
  

Top answer

Yes. It looks like 2 sentences pasted together, with some words left out. Cheers, A- s

  • Yes.
  • It looks like 2 sentences pasted together, with some words left out.
  • Cheers, A- s
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Yes. It looks like 2 sentences pasted together, with some words left out.

Cheers,
A-Emotion: stars
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Hi,

Please have a look at this:

Be merciless in weeding out product lines and their myriad versions and extensions that create unnecessary complexity. You need fewer and better products, and you need to have the best product people possible thinking about making things better, faster, and more efficiently.

I think the bold sentence is grammatically wrong, isn't
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No. It's helpful to say it out loud with the proper pacing:

You need to have the best product people possible
thinking about making things better, faster and more efficiently.

The sentence is about "product people" -- the people who design your products.
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From where I stand, I see it differently. Here is my angle and I hope I could lay it out in a way that is understood. .

"You need fewer and better products, and you need to have the best product people possible thinking about making things better, faster, and more efficiently"

I am not sure where these articles were extracted from but quite a few of them were not well co
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I don't see anything saying the product is the best. The phrase "best product" is part of the phrase "the best product people possible", which is to say the best available "product people." Once you get the best product people that it is possible to get, they need to be thinking about making things better, and making things faster, and making things more efficiently.

I agree that the
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Thanks Khoff,

Got you! So it's "the best products made by the best people possible"; right?

(In fact, one might advise the author to "be merciless in weeding out awkward phrases and their myriad versions and extensions that create unnecessary complexity.



Why didn't I think of that!
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Thank you very much, everybody Emotion: smile

Actually the author whose book I quoted those sentences from is Ram Charan - a very famous
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Hi,

No need to apologize. We like answering questions.Emotion: smile

Clive
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No, really you've entertained us. But I'm afraid I do have the phrase "best product people possible" stuck in my head like a mantra.
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I don't know what to say to thank you for all your help and your... heart Emotion: smile

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