Strategic inflection point

Only the paranoid survive-Andrew Grove

◆Sooner or later, something fundamental in your business world will change.
◆Well, that guy is always the last to know.
◆I turn back to Gordon and and i ask,"If we got kicked out and the board brought a new CEO, what do you think he will do?"Gordon answered without hesitation,"He would get us out of memories."I stared at him, numb, then said,"Why shouldn't you and i walk out the door, come back and do it ourselves?"
◆I think anything that can affect industries whose total revenue base is many hundreds of billions of dollars is a big deal.
◆There are two things that will help you get through the career valley:clarity and conviction.
◆As a single individual, your best chance to succeed in the career infection point is to take control of it with full focus and energy, and with no wavering.
◆You pack up and leave an environment you are familiar with, where you know the language ,the culture, the people and where you've been able to predict how things, both good and bad, happen.You move to a new land with new habits, a new language and a new set of dangerous and uncertainties.
◆At times like this, looking back may be tempting, but it's terribly counterproductive.Don't bemoan the way things were.They will never be that way again.Pull your energy, every bit of it, into adapting to your new world, into learning the skills you need to prosper in it and into shipping it around you.Whereas the old land presented limited opportunity or none at all, the new land enables you to have a future whose rewards are worth all the risks.