History and common sense make clear that you cannot radically transform every part of an organization — and accelerate the underlying clock of that e… - Salim Ismail

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.

Su organización es jerárquica siguiendo un sistema top-down (de arriba abajo). • Está dirigida por resultados financieros. • Su pensamiento es lineal y secuencial. • Innova principalmente desde dentro. • Su planificación estratégica es ampliamente una extrapolación del pasado. • Intolerancia al riesgo. • Inflexibilidad en sus procesos. • Gran número de empleados. • Controla sus propios activos. • Fuerte inversión en el statu quo.

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.