Quotes About Adaptation

Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.

Research has shown, in fact, that the vast majority of successful new business ventures abandoned their original business strategies when they began implementing their initial plans and learned what would and would not work in the market. 9

Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What's important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it's time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one.

Rita G. McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan, "Discovery-Driven Planning," Harvard Business Review, July–August, 1995, 4–12.

established firms tend to be good at improving what they have long been good at doing, and that entrant firms seem better suited for exploiting radically new technologies, often because they import the technology into one industry from another, where they had already developed and practiced it.

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established firms attempt to push the technology into their established markets, while the successful entrants find a new market that values the technology.

it means that disruptive technologies that may underperform today, relative to what users in the market demand, may be fully performance-competitive in that same market tomorrow.

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .

He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world.

Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.

The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

when the sun goes out and there's only night, we'll live on the earth. It'll be ours.

Having a routine that bordered on stagnancy had its benefits.

A snake can shed its skin but it still remains a snake.

And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Shawnees moved so often and dispersed so widely that they sometimes seemed like a people without a homeland of their own.

it is only the species Homo sapiens that is played out. 'The stars in their courses have turned against him and he has to give place to some other animal better adapted to face the fate that closes in on mankind.' In the final pages of the pamphlet, his trump of the last judgement has changed into the question: Can civilization be saved?

Culture is always on the move.

The world, Left Coasters insisted, can be easily and frequently reinvented.

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.