Quotes About Adaptation

coping with increasing issue breadth and complexity requires leaders to rethink how and what they delegate each time they get promoted.

Leaders who are onboarding into new organizations must therefore focus on learning and adapting to the new culture.

preparing yourself means letting go of the past and embracing the imperatives of the new situation to give yourself a running start.

Having PMs go out and get certified as ScrumMasters is not sufficient. If a PM mind-set remains, the person will never become a ScrumMaster.

Yet after each dramatic departure, the Earth's "equipoise" has always recovered and the climate restored to normal. As Bjornerud puts it, "Earth has had fevers and chills but has suffered no malady so extreme that its climatic immune system could not ultimately overcome it."30

Around us she didn't bother with English at all, and in Indian her words poured like thick whiskey that had never seen water, like hootch straight from the barrel.

When Japanese Zen monks began to marry in the nineteenth century (and almost all of them are married today), they gave up the defining practice of monasticism—celibacy, aloneness. But they refused to turn in their costumes or close their theaters. Instead, they altered the forms.

quality differentials have a tendency to erode as an industry matures

Strategists should be particularly alert to changes in other industries that may make them attractive substitutes when they were not before p.31

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Anna go ubóstwia?a. Nie odst?powali siebie na krok, a cesarzowa dostraja?a si? do zmiennych nastrojów partnera i by?a na ka?de jego skinienie.

life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.

Maybe, I thought, Knight would talk about the marrow. He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to revel the meaning of life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he had learned. I accepted it as truth.

But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

Some items had been in place for so long that the trees grew around them. A claw hammer was nearly swallowed by a tree trunk, impossible to remove, and Hughes said that this hammer, more than anything, made him realize how long Knight had lived there.

I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase.

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its own enemies is lunch.

he understands the penitentiary. It is the expectations and values of the world outside of prison that he has trouble comprehending.

Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate need to survive at any price kicks in and you can find some way to turn it around in your head?