Quotes about Adaptation

It's not time, Take it easy, Wait and see, It's someone else's turn - none of these stalls are appropriate for a leader in search of change. There's a small price for being too early, but a huge penalty for being too late. The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

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.