To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
Interpretation
Continuous innovation and preparation are essential for success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being proactive and constantly thinking ahead in order to maintain a competitive edge. It suggests that successful individuals and organizations should always have new ideas and strategies ready to implement, ensuring they are not left behind as circumstances evolve.
In practice
In a business presentation about the company's future strategies.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.
One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world
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