Quotes About Adaptation

On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

The future never enters the present as a finished product, but that doesn't stop people from expecting it to arrive that way.

Progress won't be a straight line but if you keep learning you will have more successes than failures, and the mistakes you make along the way will help you get to where you want to go.

If removing a restriction improves performance or has no impact on performance but improves morale, everyone wins.

Without change and the occasional struggle, we can't learn or grow.

Innovations often need to be explained in terms of the status quo, which is why automobiles are rated in horsepower and electric lights in

Learning from mistakes requires three things: Putting yourself in situations where you can make interesting mistakes Having the self-confidence to admit to them Being courageous about making changes

Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

If you want longevity, you can't just bet on tradition; you have to continually invest in the future.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to go out the window is the notion of perfection.

There is nothing wrong with tradition until you want progress: progress demands change, and change demands a reevaluation of what the traditions are for and how they are practiced.

we are always performing. Any time you open your mouth and expect someone to listen, you are behaving differently than you would if you were alone. Admitting this doesn't make you a phony — it makes you honest. We are social creatures and behave differently to fit into different social situations.

And the more you do to force it in, the less of what you wanted to acquire in the first place remains. The vast majority of acquisitions fail for this reason.

At the heart of the debate over how to overcome the challenges of shipping good things is an idea referenced in the title of Eric Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.1 The book, which is about observations on making software, raises a central question that is relevant to all work: Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

Toni Schneider used the term continuous deployment to describe the philosophy of endless small changes.

When there is a healthy system for recognizing, responding to, and learning from mistakes, over time fewer of them tend to happen

Remember that culture changes the value of tools: for example, if you have a team of people who hate each other, they will make each other miserable no matter how many billions of dollars of communication technology they use. Alternatively if you have people who trust each other and have similar goals, they'll be effective with smoke signals and carrier pigeons. Wars have been won by tightly knit armies using candles and Morse code.

The responsibility of people in power is to continually eliminate useless traditions and introduce valuable ones. An organization where nothing ever changes is not a workplace but a living museum.

After years of leading projects, the best thing I've learned is that I have to periodically shift between thinking small (bazaar) and thinking long term (cathedral).

Not being able to look folks in the eye in tough situations feels wrong. Would you propose marriage to someone online? Or tell a child her mother was dead in a text message? I worried that what made me good at work wouldn't transfer to a completely online environment.

Difficult times are learning opportunities. Make sure you and your team take the time to examine what happened and how it could have been avoided.

All projects are a dance between two forces, expanding to consider more ideas and shrinking to narrow things down enough to finish.