You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.
Interpretation
Success involves taking risks and making difficult decisions, not avoiding discomfort.
This quote emphasizes that true strategic thinking requires embracing discomfort and uncertainty. It suggests that rather than eliminating risks altogether, effective decision-making is about increasing the likelihood of achieving success through calculated choices and taking necessary risks.
In practice
This quote can inspire business leaders during strategic planning meetings.
The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.
Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.
Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
I didn't think I would have an Olympic medal at 21, but I knew I would give my best and play my game. I just viewed it as my first Olympics and that I would take it one match at a time, but to bring a silver home made me very, very happy.
I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.
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