Quotes About Adaptation

A leader continuously communicates the benefits of an ever-changing organization. A leader endorses an organization that is continuously reinventing itself to higher and higher levels of productivity and innovation.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. —Peter Drucker

Sucede todos los días. Las compañías que no crecen están muriendo, una tras otra.

Para mantenerse, es necesario crecer. Si usted no crece, será cuestión de tiempo hasta que su empresa acabe mordiendo el polvo.

One way to look at design—any kind of design—is that it's essentially about constraints (things you have to do and things you can't do) and tradeoffs (the less-than-ideal choices you make to live within the constraints).

One way to look at design—any kind of design—is that it's essentially about constraints

I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are and I think it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

Being on Twitter is like having a fern.

When you work in the glove department at Neiman's, you are selling things that nobody buys anymore.

Moving on and not looking back, not living in the past, was a way to trick myself into further creativity.

I guessed that one day the restrictions I imposed on myself would end. But first, it seemed that my range of possible activities would have to iris down to zero before I could turn myself around. Then, when I was static and immobile, I could weigh and measure every exterior force and, slowly and incrementally, once again allow the outside in. And that would be my life.

To experiment effectively, you must be willing to change your beliefs based on the results of the experiment

People whose cognitions fuse are likely to ignore direct experience and become relatively oblivious to environmental influences.

The problem with problem solving is that it is a mode of mind that does not know when to stop.

Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow's problem if you aren't willing to abandon today's dud.

El enfoque económico no pretende describir el mundo como cualquiera de nosotros quisiera que fuera, o teme que sea, o reza por que llegue a ser, sino más bien explicar lo que hay en la realidad. La mayoría de nosotros querría arreglar o cambiar el mundo de alguna manera. Pero para cambiar el mundo, primero hay que comprenderlo.

Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises or frustrates you, learn from it and try something different.

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Nor should failure be considered a total loss.

When you ask the question differently, you look for answers in different places.

It's easy to envision how you'd change the behavior of people who think just like you do, but the people whose behavior you're trying to change often don't think like you—and, therefore, don't respond as you might expect.

you will always have to find out whether a need is transient or persistent

They say life is tenacious. They say given half a chance, or less, life will grow and exist and evolve anywhere, even in the most inhospitable and unlikely of places. Life will always find a way, they say.

Ouch,' she mumbles. 'Somebody's superglued my joints.