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.
If you put one model in a show or in an ad campaign, that doesn't solve the problem. We need teachers in universities. We need internships. We need people of different ethnic backgrounds in all parts of the industry. That really is the solution: you have to change it from the inside.
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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