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The Maze Is in the Mouse
In 2004, I sat down in my boardroom with our strategy documents and started to dissect them. There were lots of familiar and comfortable terms. We had to be innovative, efficient, customer centric, web 2.0 and all that this entailed. Alas, I suspected these common “memes” were repeated in the strategy documents of other companies because I was pret... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of the company to the top of the company which are the people making the big decisions … Even in the case where part of the company does the right thing at the lower levels, usually the upper levels screw it up somehow.
Adam Lashinsky • Inside Apple: The Secrets Behind the Past and Future Success of Steve Jobs's Iconic Brand
99% of leaders ruin their companies with this irreversible mistake:
They stick to their guns.
Great companies recognize when change is necessary for survival.
They recognize when market conditions change and adapt accordingly.
They're willing to sacrifice short-term profits for long-term success.
But too many companies are set in their ways.
Not because ... See more
They stick to their guns.
Great companies recognize when change is necessary for survival.
They recognize when market conditions change and adapt accordingly.
They're willing to sacrifice short-term profits for long-term success.
But too many companies are set in their ways.
Not because ... See more
Look at Google. Its heartbeat is erratic, unpredictable. It works for them—mostly, sometimes—but it could work so much better. Google arguably only has one big external heartbeat each year at Google I/O—and most teams don’t bother aligning with it. They typically launch whatever they want whenever they want throughout the year, sometimes with real
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