**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**
That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision.
[first-line bold by author]
[2002] p.23
Tags: strategy creativity business
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
[2002] p.46
Tags: strategy creativity business
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**
(emphasis by author)
[2002] p.25f
Tags: paradox strategy business
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.
Thomas Henry HuxleyTags: science knowledge biology history goal metaphor justification ocean analogy isaac-newton newton business charles-darwin darwin illimitable inexplicability infinite intellectual origin-of-species possessions principia solidity unknown
The best way to predict your future is to create it
Peter F. DruckerTags: business
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.
Dave BarryTags: humor work business meetings
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Alexandre DumasTags: business
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi Jr.Tags: business
Advertising is legitimised lying.
H.G. WellsTags: business marketing sales
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