Quotes About Adaptation

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer's problem.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage that startups must possess.

Failure is a prerequisite to learning.

I call this building an adaptive organization, one that automatically adjusts its process and performance to current conditions.

Startups exist not just to make stuff, make money, or even serve customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. This

Think big. Start small. Scale fast.

Paradoxalmente, quando a busca por perfeição é substituída pela disposição de experimentar e adaptar a ideia original, o resultado final é um produto mais perfeito.

We do everything wrong: instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Then we ship it to customers way before it's ready. And we charge money for it. After securing initial customers, we change the product constantly—much too fast by traditional standards—shipping new versions of our product dozens of times every single day.

learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution.

A transformação contínua – a capacidade de uma organização para testar e aprender com experiências relacionadas à sua própria estrutura e a seus processos, promovendo, por toda a empresa, as melhores técnicas comprovadas, limitando ou descartando o resto – é o que dará a essa organização a capacidade de prosperar na era moderna.

They will ask to go back to the old way of working, in which they had the opportunity to "stay efficient" by working in larger batches and passing work between departments.

Most important, teams working in this system begin to measure their productivity according to validated learning, not in terms of the production of new features.

What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.

I was finally ready to turn to the last resort: talking to customers. Armed

pivot is a special kind of change designed to test a new fundamental hypothesis about the product, business model, and engine of growth.

startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

achieving failure"—successfully executing a flawed plan.