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1 " Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful. "
― Andrew S. Grove , Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation
2 " Business success contains the seeds of its destruction. "
3 " The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness. "
4 " Don't differentiate without a difference. "
5 " But data are about the past, and strategic inflection points are about the future. "
6 " The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change "
7 " Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them ! "
8 " Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis. "
9 " strategic changes doesn't just start at the top. It starts with your calender "
10 " The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most. "
11 " if you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in Standing still "
12 " In Technology, whatever can be done will be done "
13 " Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing "
14 " How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles? "
15 " People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early "
16 " You need to plan the way a fire department plans: It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event. "
17 " You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one "
18 " It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one "
19 " In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not "
20 " As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again "