Quotes About Adaptability

If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves.

You have to be able to improvise. You have to be able to pick up opportunities that come along.

Today you can work from home or collaborate with people you've never met who live thousands of miles away. It's time to rework work.

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

No te has fijado que mientras que las empresas pequeñas quieren ser mayores, las grandes aspiran a ser más ágiles y flexibles?

Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance. It's OK to wing it. Just get on the plane and go. You can pick up a nicer shirt, shaving cream, and a toothbrush once you get there.

Start referring to your business plans as business guesses

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

Berlin, "Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not," New

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Lancaster takes us back to where we started, but with a brilliant twist. The test of intelligence is indeed the ability to hold two opposing thoughts in one's mind, appreciate both, and still function. But you don't have to be the be-all and end-all expert in your business at one side or the other. In fact, you can be the one who doesn't excel at either. You can be the one who appreciates both and creates the conditions for both sides to flourish.

Have some general backup ideas in mind, but don't let the backup plan be carved in stone. That will prevent you from learning. The time to begin building formalized backup plans is during the tweaking, changing, and maneuvering that occurs while studying the results of the small bet. Backup plans become vital when a small bet that's turned out to be successful is about to be scaled in size.

Innovator Charles Kettering, the longtime head of research at General Motors and a prolific inventor, had warned his industry colleagues about getting caught in this trap. "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously," he said. In other words, inventors are engineers who can let go of their expertness and achieve what Apple's late CEO, Steve Jobs, called the "lightness of being a beginner again.

awake at night?" The response is practically unanimous: Leaders worry about creating a sense of urgency in their organizations and operating quickly in an increasingly complex world. They want to create strong teams that are primed to handle any hurdle that comes their way and

KISS A LOT OF FROGS "The successful don't start with brilliant ideas … they discover them!" —Peter Sims, best-selling author and venture capitalist

But basic smarts are just half of the necessary mind-set. The second half is the ability to learn new things, something a surprising number of people find incredibly difficult.

Realizing that their best opportunities existed in wholesale distribution, the leaders proved themselves adept time and again at letting go and discarding companies and business units that no longer fit the strategic direction of the firm.

Google started as a small library search project; Starbucks had no chairs and nonstop opera music at the beginning," Sims says. "Great entrepreneurs didn't start with big ideas, for the most part.

The simplest definition of Parkour is the ability to move quickly and efficiently from one destination to another, using the most direct route with the ability to combat any obstacles along the way.

when our ancestors were chased by game or predators, they were practicing Parkour – the ability to move quickly and efficiently from one destination to another as safely as possible.

After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, "You never lose your balance. What is your secret?" "You are wrong," O Sensei replied. "I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my ability to regain it.

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.