Quotes About Adaptability

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading.

Thurber was right when he said, "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.

The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating.

We spend long enough in one place to make friends and understand different ways of doing things. That's far better, to my mind, than never moving out of one valley all your born days, and never hearing a new way of speaking or a new way of doing. Keeps the brain blood circulating; shifts ideas and opens eyes and hearts.

Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.

What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE

Organizations that can bring humanity and flexibility to their interactions with other human beings will thrive. Why

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success. When

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations. Reactive quitting and serial quitting are the bane of those that strive (and fail) to get what they want. And most people do just that. They quit when it's painful and stick when they can't be bothered to quit.

3. ALWAYS LEAVE BOTH SIDES AN OUT. Nothing lasts forever, especially business partner- ships. A dear friend of mine spent two years wrestling with a former partner when he left in a huff. In the end, everyone loses. Make sure you have a well-defined clause that lets either party leave without wrecking the business.

Your business has to work when it's small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.

Are you overinvesting (really significantly overinvesting) time and money so that you have a much greater chance of dominating a market? And if you don't have enough time and money, do you have the guts to pick a different, smaller market to conquer? Once you're doing those things, then you get it.

Great leaders embrace deviants by searching for them and catching them doing something right.

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

The future belongs to chefs, not to cooks or bottle washers. It's easy to buy a cookbook (filled with instructions to follow) but really hard to find a chef book.

Believe it or not, quitting is often a great strategy, a smart way to manage your life and your career.

When your organization becomes more human, more remarkable, faster on its feet, and more likely to connect