Quotes About Transition

We've discussed the telltale signs of the need to pivot: the decreasing effectiveness of product experiments and the general feeling that product development should be more productive. Whenever you see those symptoms, consider a pivot.

The way out of this dilemma is to manage the four kinds of work differently, allowing strong cross-functional teams to develop around each area. When products move from phase to phase, they are handed off between teams. Employees can choose to move with the product as part of the handoff or stay behind and begin work on something new. Neither choice is necessarily right or wrong; it depends on the temperament and skills of the person in question.

Los sistemas que tan bien funcionan en las empresas pequeñas no pueden trasladarse al ecosistema más grande que necesitan las empresas en crecimiento, por lo que la empresa llega a un punto de estancamiento.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

And then there's the astrological deal, the Saturn return, when all the twenty-nine-year-old girls go nuts. That should be the rebirthing into adulthood, just after they recover from that at thirty.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

And there's a lot I need to let go of. But it's so much easier playing a game than living a life.

the idea of going down to your doctor's office is going to feel as foreign as going to the video store.

the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.

enabling that transition was my close friend and colleague Dietmar Harhoff.

At some point as interest in a topic grows, there is a transition from dyadic academic relationships to a real research community. In my case, the essential person in enabling that transition was

Every Journey, no matter how far, starts with one step

part of her didn't want her wounds to be healed. Not yet. She wasn't ready. She still needed to kick against the hurt of her grief. The

The land girls from Shillingbury Farm looked the most altered

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

Man always dies before he is fully born.

The fabric of archetypal canon which used to support the average man has given way... [p. 439]

The identity crisis… occurs in that period of the life cycle when each youth must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood.

Omit any language that's blameful or accusatory: you're not trying to make the person see the error of his/her ways, or feel bad—you're simply making it clear that they no longer have a job with the company, and telling them what will happen next.

When did a person begin to emerge from that fantastical sea of childhood onto the dry land of adult existence?

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

once a kittypet always a kittypet." -longtail