Quotes About Adaptability

Intuition, luck, mistakes, serendipity—there you have four vital business concepts that every manager should know.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

la investigación revela que los equipos funcionan mejor cuando los miembros saben claramente cuáles son sus propias responsabilidades pero no tienen certezas sobre la manera como pueden alcanzar las metas del equipo.

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

Multi-active cultures are very flexible. If Pedro interrupted Carlos's conversation, which was already in the process of interrupting Sven's tennis, this was quite normal and acceptable in Portugal. It is not acceptable in

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.

A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.

you learn how to recover from falling by falling! It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like. The skater pushing both right and left eventually goes where he or she wants to go. People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. That is why they are so hard to live with.

Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five...

Portugal é o país onde as regras são meras sugestões.

Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.

Great leaders have to think outside the box sometimes.

Percy's ears turned as pink as Alex's jeans. Anyway, maybe we've been looking at this all wrong. I've been tying to teach you sea skills. But the most important thing is to use whatever you've got to hand - your team, your wits, the enemy's own magical stuff. And there's no way to plan for that, I said. Exactly! Percy said. My work here is done! Annabeth frowned. Percy, you're saying the best plan is no plan. As a child of Athena, I can't really endorse that.

I hold up two fingers. 'How many fingers?' He squints. 'Twenty-five?' 'Yeah, you'll be fine.

A good artist must be good at many things.

I wish you'd be quiet," I muttered. "I also wish we had snowshoes." "You'd need Uller for that," said the goat. "Who?" "The god of snowshoes," said Otis. "He invented them. Also archery and…I don't know, other stuff.

you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.

Act fast but don't get tied into a single course of action.

Soldiers learn to eat and sleep whenever they have the chance, because you never know when you might have to move without warning. And it could be a long time between meals.

He was low-key, I was intense; things that cut me to the quick he was able to sail by with scarcely a notice; he was slow to anger, I quick; the world registered gently upon him, sometimes not at all, whereas I was fast to feel both pleasure and pain.

But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.

It is important to learn how to fail, to learn how to be wrong in a way that minimizes pain to you and others and maximizes what you can learn from the experience.