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Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
He gives power to the weak
and strength to the powerless.
Even youths will become weak and tired,
and young men will fall in exhaustion.
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
They will walk and not faint.
— The Bible, Book of Isaiah, Chapter 40, verses 28 to 31(New Living Translation)
Generally disruptive innovations were technologically straightforward, consisting of off-the-shelf components put together in a product architecture that was often simpler than prior approaches. They offered less of what customers in established markets wanted and so could rarely be initially employed there. They offered a different package of attributes valued only in emerging markets remote from, and unimportant to, the mainstream
— Innovator’s Dilemma - Clayton M Christensen
In many instances, leadership in sustaining innovations—about which information is known and for which plans can be made—is not competitively important. In such cases, technology followers do about as well as technology leaders. It is in disruptive innovations, where we know least about the market, that there are such strong first-mover advantages. This is the innovator’s dilemma.
— Innovator’s Dilemma - Clayton M Christensen
The real competition out there isn’t for clients, it’s for people. And we look to hire people who are, first, very smart; second, insecure and thus driven by their insecurity; and third, competitive. Put together 3,000 of these egocentric, task-oriented, achievement-oriented people, and it produces an atmosphere of something less than humility. Yes, it’s elitist. But don’t you think there has to be room somewhere in this politically correct world for something like this?
— Ron Daniel, Former CEO, McKinsey & Co
without fulfilment any measure of success means nothing
"who you are inside” is the metaphorical dirt from which your fruit grows. “You” are nothing but the fruit. Nobody cares about your dirt. “Who you are inside” is meaningless aside from what it produces for other people.
One of the fundamental principles of trust is that we trust those who we believe understand us.
— Charles Green
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln  

it is more important to ask questions than to find answers.
In the business of advice-giving, it is not enough to be right-you have to earn the right to be right
— The Trusted Advisor