A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the... by Andy Grove

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much f... by Andy Grove

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

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A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

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Make mistakes faster. by Andy Grove

Make mistakes faster.

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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say thin... by Andy Grove

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

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You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds 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.

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There are two options: adapt or die. by Andy Grove

There are two options: adapt or die.

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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality... by Andy Grove

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

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Activity is not output. by Andy Grove

Activity is not output.

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Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating... by Andy Grove

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

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Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.

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Only the paranoid survive. by Andy Grove

Only the paranoid survive.

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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

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