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.
Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
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