In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.
Interpretation
A company's success is determined not just by its current state, but by its future potential and evolution.
This quote emphasizes the idea that a company's long-term success is not solely defined by its present circumstances, but significantly by its adaptability, growth, and the direction it is heading. It challenges businesses to focus on their development, innovation, and the changes they need to implement to sustain relevance in a competitive landscape.
In practice
This quote can be used in a corporate meeting to inspire teams to focus on long-term goals.
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
The heart is the secret inside the secret.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
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