Quotes About Adaptation

ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you

by disrupting routines, we can create more peaks.

A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Never assume you know what your customers value or that their preferences will remain static.

Each day I walked into the office and asked myself, "If I had to compete against lululemon, what would I do?" This allowed me to cannibalize what was working today for what would be best for the future.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

What is the nature of life? Life is lines of dominoes falling. One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.

She taught me to close myself off from the sorrow of others so that I might survive

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change.

Even the most startling adventure, sooner or later, must become routine.

Things are breaking down inside of her. She waits to see if she can build new, satisfying shapes from them.

Each time I went to a new brother, I'd be a virgin again.

The past ten years have been about discovering new ways to create, invent, and work together on the Web. The next ten years will be about applying those lessons to the real world.

A physical store cannot be reconfigured on the fly to cater to each customer based on his or her particular interests.

With the evolution of online retail, however, has come the revelation that being able to recategorize and rearrange products on the fly unlocks their real value.

And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.