Adam Little
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Adam Little
How can you change your outlook by changing your perspective?
This is a story I love about three stonecutters:
One morning, three stonecutters working on a cathedral construction site were approached by a traveler who was interested in their work.
The traveler posed the same question to each, seeking to understand their perspectives on their labor.
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This is a story I love about three stonecutters:
One morning, three stonecutters working on a cathedral construction site were approached by a traveler who was interested in their work.
The traveler posed the same question to each, seeking to understand their perspectives on their labor.
T... See more
This is how the singularity goes: wonders become routine, and then table stakes.
Startups benefit from starving. Starving creates hunger, which drives people to solve problems with resourcefulness and urgency. When exploring new products in a big company with excessive resources, you need to create scarcity to emulate this startup starvation. This generally means operating as a small, scrappy, siloed team.
To win in business, you must be either a low-cost provider or differentiated. If you’re neither, competitors can “bully” you and take market share. Two questions can help you figure out whether you’re winning in these ways. First, could you match competitor price decreases and remain more profitable than them? If not, you’re not a low-cost
... See more“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden