I'm often credited with the motto, "only the paranoid survive".
I have no idea when I first said this, but the fact remains that, when it comes to business, I believe in the value of paranoia. Busines success contains the deed of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left. I believe that the prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly against other people's attacks and to inculcate this guardian attitude in the people under his or her management.
Having both been affected by strategic inflection points and having caused them, I can safely say that the former is tougher.
I have no idea when I first said this, but the fact remains that, when it comes to business, I believe in the value of paranoia. Busines success contains the deed of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left. I believe that the prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly against other people's attacks and to inculcate this guardian attitude in the people under his or her management.
Having both been affected by strategic inflection points and having caused them, I can safely say that the former is tougher.
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