“An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.” WayOpportunityGrowthCompanyShareFairsCoreCaptureAvenuesNew OpportunityFair ShareAdaptableRedefining Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.” RealEnergyMemoriesCompanyInnovationCoreChipsElectronicsNanotechnologyBiotech Author:Steve Jurvetson
“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.” ShouldYearsHeartLongAbleLastsValuesBusinessCompanyProgressWonderfulBuiltArgumentCorePreservesThriveConvincingJerryMiningFluxUnchangingRetaining Author:Kevin Kelly