Top 15 Salim Ismail Quotes

Today, if you're not disrupting yourself, someone else is; your fate is to be either the disrupter or the disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Martin Seligman, a leading expert on positive psychology, differentiates between three states of happiness: the pleasurable life (hedonistic, superficial), the good life (family and friends) and the meaningful life (finding purpose, transcending ego, working toward a higher good). Research shows that Millennials — those born between 1984 and 2002 — are showing an orientation towards seeking meaning and purpose in their lives.

The ultimate objective is what the Gartner Group calls a zero latency enterprise — that is, a company in which the time between idea, acceptance and implementation all but disappears — and implementing

in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

when you move from point A to point B, you can then see point C. But you can't see point C from point A. Iteration/experimentation is the only way.

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

as data becomes the new oil, many business models will be transformed from hardware to software to services.

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.

Jerry Michalski notes that in the past, scarcity meant value. That is, without scarcity, you didn't have a business. Now that notion has been upended. Dave Blakely of IDEO thinks about ExOs in the following way: "These new organizations are exponential because they took something scarce and made it abundant." Nokia bought Navteq, trying to buy, own and control scarcity, only to be leapfrogged by Waze, which managed to harness abundance.

In an ExO world, purpose trumps strategy and execution overrides planning.

many ExOs are adopting the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) method. Invented at Intel by CEO Andy Grove and brought to Google by venture capitalist John Doerr in 1999, OKR tracks individual, team and company goals and outcomes in an open and transparent way. In High Output Management, Grove's highly regarded manual, he introduced OKRs as the answer to two simple questions: Where do I want to go? (Objectives) How will I know I'm getting there? (Key Results to ensure progress is made)

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

6Ds: Digitized, Deceptive, Disruptive, Dematerialize, Demonetize and Democratize. Any technology that

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects,