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- We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
- Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can…
- 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…
- In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
- In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
- Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
- In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural…
- Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of…
- ... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46
- Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis…
- Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.
- The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
- This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
- Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my…
More Companies Quotes
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other.… — Donald Berwick
- I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
- There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We… — Jeff Bezos
- On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes:… — Jeff Bezos
- Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins,… — Jeff Bezos
- You know we're going to control the insurance companies. — Joe Biden
- Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize -… — Joe Biden
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- Those record companies don't know what's happening at all. — Ritchie Blackmore
- Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs… — Michael Bloomberg