The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.

The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.