There Are Two Options: Adapt Or Die.

So Give Me A Turbulent World As Opposed To A Quiet World And I'll Take The Turbulent One.

There's A Tendency At The Senior And Middle-manager Level To Be Too Big-picturish And Too Superficial. There Is A Phrase, "the Devil Is In The Details." One Can Formulate Brilliant Global Strategies Whose Executability Is Zero. It's Only Through Familiarity With Details - The Capability Of The Individuals Who Have To Execute, The Marketplace, The Timing - That A Good Strategy Emerges. I Like To Work From Details To Big Pictures.

The Boom Was Healthy Too, Even With Its Excesses. Because What This Incredible Valuation Craze Did Was Draw Untold Sums Of Billions Of Dollars Into Building The Internet Infrastructure. The Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars That Got Invested In Telecommunications, For Example.

Not All Problems Have A Technological Answer, But When They Do, That Is The More Lasting Solution.

You Have To Understand What It Is That You Are Better At Than Anybody Else And Mercilessly Focus Your Efforts On It.