Quotes About Flexibility

The only languages which do not change are dead ones.

Unless a society is expecting its own future choices to be better than its present ones, it will strive to make its present policies and institutions as immutable as possible.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

On s'habitue plus facilement que prévue à ce qui paraît insoutenable.

Acostumbramos con mayor facilidad de lo previsto a lo que parece insoportable

The great economist John Maynard Keynes is supposed to have said "when the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

The first key idea is that when you have a challenge for which measuring progress is hard, the ability to adapt is just as important as the ability to plan.

The very fact that we don't know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power.

This is our story, and we're not sticking to it.

Cuando escribimos, sentimos que el mundo se mueve, es flexible y está lleno de posibilidades. Ciertamente no está congelado

Reconfirm scheduled events before they happen. Announce changes to scheduled or committed dates as soon as they change. Intimacy

We need structures that don't squash flexibility and creativity but minimize inefficiency and confusion.

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not

When you yet to do 100% of what somebody wants, you need a perfect match, and it's pretty rare that you have a perfect match between what you thought people needed and what they actually need. If you try instead to do 80 percent of what they need, there's a pretty good chance you'll hit a sweet spot.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF (Single Point of Failure). If the office loses power or Internet or air conditioning, it's no longer functional as a place to do work. If a company doesn't have any training or infrastructure to work around that, it means it's going to be unavailable to its customers.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.

David J. Anderson

David, we have been around your building and we've seven kanban boards. Each one is different! Each team is following a different process! How can you possibly cope with this complexity?' My answer was always a dismissive 'of course! Each team's situation is different.

It's the very essence of science that its conclusions can change, that is, that its truths are not absolute. The intrinsic good sense of this is contained within the remark reportedly made by the eminent economist John Maynard Keynes, responding to the criticism that he had changed his position on monetary policy during the 1930s Depression: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

strategy is the art of the possible

A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.