Quotes about Adaptation

Think for a second about the people you know who are engaged, satisfied, eager to get to work. Most of them, I'll bet, make change.

Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.

Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

REDO THE MISSION STATEMENT AND THE BUSINESS PLAN EVERY THREE MONTHS

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

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

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

Make things better. It's entirely possible that the thing you are marketing satisfies no real demand.

If you tell your competition your tactics, they'll steal them and it will cost you. But if you tell them your strategy, it won't matter. Because they don't have the guts or the persistence to turn your strategy into their strategy.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.

A Nine-Year-Old Kid Can Do Edgecraft While the edges always change, the process never does. Here's how you do it: Find a product or service that's completely unrelated to your industry. Figure out who's winning by being remarkable. Discover which edge they went to. Do that in your own industry.