The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
Interpretation
Organizations must be prepared for unexpected changes that have not been encountered before.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of change within organizations, highlighting that they will face challenges in the future that are unlike any they have encountered in the past. It suggests that adaptability and foresight are essential for success in an ever-evolving landscape.
In practice
During a team meeting when discussing future projects and challenges.
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.
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?
There is a miracle in every new beginning
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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