Quotes About Adaptation

Rather than demand whatever it takes, we ask, What will it take?

You can only work exactly the same way, at the same pace, doing the same work for so long before monotony bites.

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

Always keeping the door open to radical changes only invites chaos and second-guessing.

It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going.

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

People are creatures of habit. That's why they react to change in such a negative way. They're used to using something in a certain way and any change upsets the natural order of things. So they push back. They complain. They demand that you revert to the way things were. But that doesn't mean you should act. Sometimes you need to go ahead with a decision you believe in, even if it's unpopular at first.

But what if …?" "What happens when …?" "Don't we need to plan for …?" Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

new customers today expect something different than new customers did a decade ago.

Machines can work 24/7, humans can't.

Accept that better ideas aren't necessarily better if they arrive after the train has left the station. If they're so good, they can catch the next one.

Si hubiera hecho caso a mis clientes,  les habría proporcionado un caballo más rápido. HENRY FORD

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

When you let customers outgrow you, you'll most likely wind up with a product that's basic—and that's fine. Small, simple, basic needs are constant. There's an endless supply of customers who need exactly that.

Sometimes you need to say, "We're going in a new direction because that's what makes sense today.

Las empresas de software no se suelen plantear escribir libros. Los grupos de música no se suelen plantear filmar el proceso de grabación de canciones. Los fabricantes de coches no se suelen plantear vender carbón. Seguro que hay algo que tú podrías vender y que aún no te has planteado.

Si lo que quieres es lanzar el «nuevo iPod» o el «sustituto de Pokemon», entonces estás muerto. Estás dejando que sea tu competencia quien determine los parámetros. No serás nunca más Apple que Apple. Ellos definen las reglas del juego. No podrás nunca ganar al que pone las reglas. Tienes que redefinir el juego, y no limitarte a hacer algo un poquito mejor.

Unless you're a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

You have to revisit anyway The fact is that everyone has scalability issues, no one can deal with their service going from zero to a few million users without revisiting almost every aspect of their design and architecture. -Dare Obasanjo, Microsoft

Defensive companies can't think ahead; they can only think behind. They don't lead; they follow.

los planes no son compatibles con la improvisación. Y tienes que ser capaz de improvisar. Tienes