Salim Ismail Quotes

Clay Shirky calls cognitive surplus. "The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects," he

To demonstrate, consider the number of times the founders of the following companies pitched investors before finally succeeding: Company Number of Investor Pitches Skype 40 Cisco 76 Pandora 300 Google 350

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

Non-ownership, then, is the key to owning the future — except, of course, when it comes to scarce resources and assets. As noted above, Tesla owns its own factories and Amazon its own warehouses. When the asset in question is rare or extremely scarce, then ownership is a better option. But if your asset is information-based or commoditized at all, then accessing is better than possessing.

renowned consulting firm McKinsey & Company advised AT&T not to enter the mobile telephone business, predicting there would be fewer than one million cellular phones in use by 2000. In fact, by 2000, there were one hundred million mobile phones. Not only was McKinsey's prediction off by 99 percent, its recommendation also resulted in AT&T missing out on one of the biggest business opportunities of modern times.

small, independent and interdisciplinary teams are critical to future organizations, especially at the edges.

The educated person who's been promised a future and is watching the ladder collapse — that's the real problem. We need new ladders for meaning, agency, status, and contribution.

Nation states are an artifact of a scarcity environment. Nation states can not compute abundance, they can not operate in that paradigm.

As Eric Ries explains, "The modern rule of competition is whoever learns fastest, wins."

Waze's triumph and Navteq's decline should be the model for every budding ExO. Ask yourself, "Which of my products or services can I digitize and dematerialize?" and "How can I use the Six Ds to leapfrog my biggest linear competitors? How can I use them to demonetize and democratize my products and/or services?"

classic example is Google's AdWords, which is now a multi-billion dollar business within Google. A key to its scalability is self-provisioning — that is, the interface for an AdWords customer has been completely automated such that there is no manual involvement.

Martin Seligman, un líder experto en psicología positiva, distingue entre tres estados de felicidad: la vida placentera (hedonista, superficial), la buena vida (familia y amigos) y la vida con sentido (encontrar un propósito, trascender el ego, trabajar por un bien mayor). Las investigaciones muestran que la generación del Milenio — la de los nacidos entre 1984 y 2002 — muestra cierta orientación a buscar significado y propósito en sus vidas.4 A lo largo y ancho del mundo, sus aspiraciones son cada vez mayores y, de tal modo, se sienten atraídos como clientes, empleados e inversores a organizaciones con iguales aspiraciones

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

OKR tracks individual, team and company goals and outcomes in an open and transparent way.

When failure is not an option, you end up with safe, incremental innovation, with no radical breakthroughs or disruptive innovations.