Quotes About Flexibility

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

When people know the desired destination, they're free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count.

Establishing your core priorities is, unfortunately, not the same as binding yourself to them.

To make better decisions, use the WRAP process: Widen Your Options. Reality-Test Your Assumptions. Attain Distance Before Deciding. Prepare to Be Wrong.

You have to back up your destination postcard with a good behavioral script. That's a recipe for success. What you don't need to do is anticipate every turn in the road between today and the destination. It's not that plotting the whole journey is undesirable; it's that it's impossible.

Widen Your Options. Reality-Test Your Assumptions. Attain Distance Before Deciding. Prepare to Be Wrong.

sometimes in times of change, nobody knows how to behave, and that can lead to problems.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count. Recall

Ooching, in short, should be used as a way to speed up the collection of trustworthy information, not as a way to slow down a decision that deserves our full commitment. 3

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Partnership elasticity stretches the relationship so it can breathe, grow, and expand.

Help your customer lighten up, let go, kick back, and save perfection for a rare picture day.

The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change.

A physical store cannot be reconfigured on the fly to cater to each customer based on his or her particular interests.

With the evolution of online retail, however, has come the revelation that being able to recategorize and rearrange products on the fly unlocks their real value.

There's a saying: "Life is first draft". Means you pretty much make it up as you go along, and there's never a chance for a rewrite.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.