Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.
The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.
How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
Only the paranoid survive.
I believe in the value of paranoia. 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 left.
Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.
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