Quotes About Evolution

Despite its efforts to modernize its plants and make them competitive, one sees a gradual withdrawal from those arenas

Two contradictory activities. From a company point of view, it makes perfect sense.

We Have Not Yet Built Our Defining Product

When competitive advantages don't last, or last for a much shorter time than they used to, the strategy playbook needs to change. Leaders

Deconstructing reward systems, processes, legacy programs, structures, networks, and other elements used to deliver to an old advantage is not going to happen by accident and calls for real leadership.

Think about it: the presumption of stability creates all the wrong reflexes. It allows for inertia and power to build up along

stretch, instability, and multidimensionality are crucial to keep a company from getting stuck.

What happened? A long track record of relatively stable success caused the ambition to hungrily search for new opportunities to atrophy.

I do think that creating the right foundation for your culture allows you to make changes as you need to make changes.

In a transient-advantage context, unlike a conventional one, disengaging is not confused with business failure.

Moving from advantage to advantage is seen as quite normal, not exceptional. Clinging to older advantages is seen as potentially dangerous.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT

They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.

that ole frog is more together than I am. That frog doesn't want to make movies. That frog hasn't even seen movies and furthermore that frog doesn't give a big damn. It just swims, eats, makes love, and sings as it pleases. Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

Now when something is growing very very slowly, it is almost impossible to notice it happening.

Mrs. Twit wasn't born ugly. She'd had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older.

Your head SHRINKS into your neck… "And your neck SHRINKS into your body… "And your body SHRINKS into your legs… "And your legs SHRINK into your feet. And in the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.

We're all endlessly figuring it out because Spirit keeps doing something new. We can fight this, resist this, dig in our heels, wish things were the way they used to be, or we can embrace it. We can choose to see it with fear and frustration, or we can see it as thrilling and invigorating. Organizations can keep trying to relive their glory days, wishing things were like they were when they started.

There are more atoms than molecules, but a molecule is more complex than an atom. There are more molecules than cells, but a cell is more complex than a molecule. And so on up the hierarchy it goes, with increasingly complex levels of organization at each higher level.

There's a good chance your ikigai will change over time. Relax, this is normal.

It's like I'm figuring it out, but as soon as I do, something shifts, and we get to figure it out all over again. I resist this endless figuring it all out, but over time, it starts to work a kind of magic on me.

I realize I've been living for years with the assumption that at some point you arrive. You get it all nailed down. You sort it all out. And then from there you get on with it.