Quotes About Evolution

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In 1911 Taylor wrote: "In the past, the man has been first; in the future, the system must be first." Taylor's prediction has come to pass.

established companies need to figure out how to accomplish what Scott Cook did in 1983, but on an industrial scale and with an established cohort of managers steeped in traditional management culture.

of work. Over that period, we were making constant improvements to the

Every successful product or feature began life in research and development (R&D), eventually became a part of the company's strategy, was subject to optimization, and in time became old news.

Los sistemas que tan bien funcionan en las empresas pequeñas no pueden trasladarse al ecosistema más grande que necesitan las empresas en crecimiento, por lo que la empresa llega a un punto de estancamiento.

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.

make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback

Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which today has over two hundred stores. It began as an antique store in 1977;

BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN FEEDBACK LOOP

After all, it was survival of the fittest few.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

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

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as "death by a thousand clicks," and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98–100

Imaging via a pocket ultrasound device decidedly transcends the antique stethoscope from 1816, regarded as the icon of medicine.

the idea of going down to your doctor's office is going to feel as foreign as going to the video store.

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

change begins with freedom from the past.

The whole sport of high-performance windsurfing really started from that. As soon as I did it, there were about ten of us who sailed all the time together and within one or two days there were various boards out there that had footstraps of various kinds on them, and we were all going fast and jumping waves and stuff. It just kind of snowballed from there. (Shah 2000) By 1998, more than a million people were engaged

the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.

contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and

each innovator will tend to develop innovations that draw on the sticky information it already has, because that is