The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.
Win small, win early, win often.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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