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Companies today basically have two choices: Adapt or die. Some have died in front of our eyes; others are struggling with the adaptation. As they struggle, the methods of doing business that worked very well for them for decades are becoming history. Companies that have had generations of employees growing up under a no-layoff policy are now dumping ten thousand people at a time onto the street. Unfortunately, that’s all part of the process of adaptation.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
35. Antiroutine:
To create original output, consume unusual input. Avoid trending videos, NYT bestsellers, widely cited papers. Instead. read ignored texts, plumb the past for forgotten ideas. Step outside the zeitgeist so you can see it with fresh eyes.
My Friends, a New MEGATH...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
In the old days technicians used to claim that their 'wages' should go up with productivity. Since, they said, they had produced more, so should they benefit. This was obviously wrong: economic progress is due not to manual workers - they do not even work harder - but to the inventors and organizers who devise new techniques. If anyone is entitled to the increment, it is the meritocracy.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young
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