In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.
Interpretation
A company's success is determined not just by its current state, but by its future potential and evolution.
This quote emphasizes the idea that a company's long-term success is not solely defined by its present circumstances, but significantly by its adaptability, growth, and the direction it is heading. It challenges businesses to focus on their development, innovation, and the changes they need to implement to sustain relevance in a competitive landscape.
In practice
This quote can be used in a corporate meeting to inspire teams to focus on long-term goals.
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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