Quotes About Flexibility

We'd have to check into this another time— say, like, the next time we decided to break into a maximum-security prison. Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 138). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

When the hell did things one who comes up with the wacky, impossible plans. I'm supposed to be the general here. Now I'm barely a lieutenant.

Proverbially, no military plan survives contact with the enemy. That is never truer than when there is no plan to begin with.

your behavior changes as your priorities change.

you will never get your ducks in a row.

Not compromising isn't the same thing as being unreasonable.

This is how it should be done' but rather 'This is how we are currently doing it today, it's up to you to show us how it's done tomorrow'.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Let's not automatically turn to the next page in the textbook because it's the next page of the textbook, but because that page best serves the students we are teaching. And if the next page isn't as good as the one 57 pages later, let's go to the one 57 pages away without guilt.

That's my dogma. Just borrow any old god-damn religion that happens to be around when you need it and enjoy the pleasure of being with welcoming people. Today, on windy Rocky Ridge beneath a hard blue Wyoming sky, I was a Mormon.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

allowing an existing structure to remain in place for too long creates inertia and results in an organization that is maladapted to the opportunities it finds.

Organizations have habits. And they will cling to their habits at the expense sometimes of their own survival.

They reallocate resources flexibly and on an ongoing basis, rather than going through sudden divestitures or restructurings.

Companies such as Google (and, historically, 3M) operationalize this theory by giving employees time at work to do whatever they want, without restriction or guidance.

A more effective approach in uncertain environments is to allow resources to be invested only when uncertainty is reduced, a core principle of options reasoning.

rather than heavy annual budgeting processes and efficiency-oriented values, the outlier firms invest in increasing their flexibility, even if this might lead to a small degree of

Chameleons usually don't draw much of a crowd or get many ovations. By

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

reality is always plural and mutable.

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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