Quotes About Adaptation

Stretch and contradictory goals are important

I do think that creating the right foundation for your culture allows you to make changes as you need to make changes.

The goal is to understand how this period can be extended for as long as possible while simultaneously being mindful that it will eventually erode.

In a transient-advantage context, unlike a conventional one, disengaging is not confused with business failure.

maintaining an organizational system that can maintain the complementarity between the forces for innovation and those for stability.

aggressively and frequently change the management team, a pattern found by consultancy Accenture.2

benefited from the declining category by developing an innovative business model—insurance, rather than simply relying on manufacturing.

Moving from advantage to advantage is seen as quite normal, not exceptional. Clinging to older advantages is seen as potentially dangerous.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Your head SHRINKS into your neck… "And your neck SHRINKS into your body… "And your body SHRINKS into your legs… "And your legs SHRINK into your feet. And in the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.

Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

People aren't static; they're dynamic—endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change.

We're all endlessly figuring it out because Spirit keeps doing something new. We can fight this, resist this, dig in our heels, wish things were the way they used to be, or we can embrace it. We can choose to see it with fear and frustration, or we can see it as thrilling and invigorating. Organizations can keep trying to relive their glory days, wishing things were like they were when they started.

There's a good chance your ikigai will change over time. Relax, this is normal.

It's like I'm figuring it out, but as soon as I do, something shifts, and we get to figure it out all over again. I resist this endless figuring it all out, but over time, it starts to work a kind of magic on me.

But reading the Bible, you learn that it's not about trying to be something you're not—it's about learning to see the movement and motion and possibilities right in the midst of whatever world you find yourself in. We're not living in the first century or the ancient Near East—we're here, now. At this time. In this world.

Science does an excellent job of telling me why I don't have a tail, but it can't explain why I find that interesting.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

I didn't think of myself as American or German, but as a little of both. I didn't speak only German or only English, but used whatever words worked best for the situation.

When talking with older men, men who could help him, Lyndon Johnson "gave them," this aide says, "whatever they wanted to hear.