Quotes About Flexibility

They are fast. They embrace new thinking. They are geared for disruption and innovation through uncertainty. One

Startups are different: too much budget is as harmful as too little—as countless dot-com failures can attest—and startups are extremely sensitive to midcourse budgetary changes.

The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility. The MVP is just the first step on a journey of learning.

work in any size company, even a very large enterprise, in any sector or industry.

learn whether to pivot or persevere.

Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.

We must be willing to set aside our traditional professional standards to start the process of validated leaming as soon as possible. But once again, this does not mean operating in a sloppy or undisciplined wa

old management methods are not up to the task. Planning and forecasting

Strategic planning takes months to complete; these experiments could begin immediately.

make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path.

when you were out of options, then you were using the wrong tactics? You had to bend the rules. Shift perspective—anything to find a way out of a hopeless situation.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn't allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant

Anticipation, she would say, locks you into a mind-set, which, whether you realize it or not, dictates your actions, even though they may be the wrong ones. If you don't anticipate, your mind is clear, your actions develop as the situation unfolds.

so. In contrast, the custom manufacturer wants to lower its

A design that doesn't take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.

dynamically.

The positive thing about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible!

Truth is a permanent discontinuation of values which must be adjusted recurrently. ( "Hinter der Mattscheibe" )

Brackenfur arched his back against the bracken fronds

The mice aren't going to line up and come running into camp, you know.

What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.