Quotes About Adaptation

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."—John Gall

Leadership on the Line by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky,

No one is perfect, and we're all works in progress.

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us.

The important thing is to learn from each failure and try not to repeat it.

Lo recuerdo muy bien diciéndome que no me preocupara por lo que fuera a ser en un futuro porque el trabajo que haría aún no se había inventado…

Let go of what's not working and really assess what is working and 'what can I be excited about?

Biology isn't about blunt force.

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable persiste en intentar adaptar el mundo a él. Por consiguiente, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable.» GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Máximas para revolucionarios

Tom Peters is still reinventing himself." His most recent book is The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence.

Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success, by Matthew Syed.

no puedes cambiar las reglas, ignóralas.

That cliché you ignored like a throwaway fortune cookie? Suddenly it makes sense and moves mountains. Conversely, things you initially found enlightening might run their course, like a wonderful high school coach who needs to hand you off to a college coach for you to reach the next level.

GOOD QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN TACKLING INCUMBENT COMPANIES (OR IDEAS) "How is their bread buttered?" "What is it that they can't afford to say or think?

Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning how to dance in the rain

That's not a bug. It's a feature!

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable persiste en intentar adaptar el mundo a él. Por consiguiente, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable.»

Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter. I

I look at every failure as a learning experience and try to spend time with my failures. I stew on them for a while until I pick out some nugget from them that I can take forward.

I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

It's not giving up to put your current path on indefinite pause.

Cuando empiezas en algo podemos estar seguros de varias realidades fundamentales: 1) No eres ni de cerca tan bueno ni tan importante como crees; 2) Tienes una actitud que debes reajustar; 3) La mayoría de lo que crees que sabes o la mayoría de lo que aprendiste en los libros o en las aulas está obsoleto o equivocado.

Show me an incumbent bigco failing to adapt to change, I'll show you top execs paid huge cash compensation for quarterly and annual goals." "Every billionaire suffers from the same problem. Nobody around them ever says, 'Hey, that stupid idea you just had is really stupid.'" "'Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.'—Peter Lynch