Quotes About Adaptation

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Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users' standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.

Are you overinvesting (really significantly overinvesting) time and money so that you have a much greater chance of dominating a market? And if you don't have enough time and money, do you have the guts to pick a different, smaller market to conquer?

REDO THE MISSION STATEMENT AND THE BUSINESS PLAN EVERY THREE MONTHS

You need a formal business reinvention process. Put it in your calendar. Every three months, take your most trusted advisers, employees, backers, and even customers and get away from the phones for a little while. Start from scratch. "If we were starting over—no office, no employees, no customers—would we choose to be where we are today?" If the answer isn't, yes, then it's time to take a hard look at the path you took and the impact it has had on your business.

You don't have to like change to take advantage of it.

I can do this forever. It's like adjusting a pair

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organisations. Reactive quitting and serial quitting are the bane of those that strive (and fail) to get what they want.

Those places that felt safe—the corner office, the famous college, the secure job—aren't. You're holding back, betting on a return to normal, but in the new normal, your resistance to change is no longer helpful.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one. Hiring

Bloggers around the world are discovering that it's cheaper and faster and more effective to build their own media channels than it is to waste time arguing with the old ones.

Fact is, the first 100 years of our country's history were about who could build the biggest, most efficient farm. And the second century focused on the race to build factories. Welcome to the third century, folks. The third century is about ideas.

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird.

if we canceled the shuttle, we'd create an urgent need for a replacement. The lack of a way to get to space would force us to invent a new, better, cheaper alternative.

The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.

Se zice c? modul cel mai bun de a te plânge este s? schimbi lucrurile în bine.

The first rule the music business failed to understand is that, at least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin. Soon enough, the new thing will be better than the old thing. But if you wait until then, it's going to be too late.

Industries don't die by surprise. It's not as if you didn't know it was coming. It's not as if you didn't know whom to call (or hire).

The practice seeks to make change, but the process demands originality. The practice is consistent, but only in intention, not in execution.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Individuals who push their organizations, who inspire other individuals to change the rules, thrive. Again, we're back to leadership, which can come from anyone, anywhere in the organization.

There's a gap in the market where your version of better can make a welcome change happen.

Organizations respond to competitive threats. Individuals respond to colleagues or to opportunities. Response is always better than reaction.

The same way soldiers realize that it's war that makes generals