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There's A Simple, But Oft-neglected Lesson Here: To Sustain Success, You Have To Be Willing To Abandon Things That Are No Longer Successful.

I Live A Half Mile From The San Andreas Fault - A Fact That Bubbles Up Into My Consciousness Every Time Some Other Part Of The World Experiences An Earthquake. I Sometimes Wonder Whether This Subterranean Sense Of Impending Disaster Is At Least Partly Responsible For Silicon Valley's Feverish, Get-it-done-yesterday Work Norms.

The Single Biggest Reason Companies Fail Is They Overinvest In What Is, As Opposed To What Might Be.

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 Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

You Can't Use An Old Map To See A New Land.