Lesson from Google & the Wall Street Journal
Came into office this morning and was given an article to read by CH (my boss). It was from the Wall Street Journal titled "Management a La Google".
It talks about why Google is different from the rest.
"Companies haven't been changing as fast as the world around them. What the laggards fail to grasp is that what matters most today is not a company's competitive advantage at a point in time, but its evolutionary advantage over time."
A company's success does not lie on how fast it can grow within a short period of time. It is about how constant it can grow over a long period of time. Take Google for example. Their vision is to organize the world's information i.e to raise the world's IQ. And that vision gives them a lot of space to manuverve and evolve over the years. Unfortunately a lot of companies fail to appreciate that the capacity to evolve is the most important advantage of them all.
Isn't it interesting how you can apply this piece of wise saying into our individual lives as well?
Two questions for you to mull over.
1. Are you equipping yourself with the right skills to compete in the future?
2. Are you giving yourself ample space to manuvere and grow?
It talks about why Google is different from the rest.
"Companies haven't been changing as fast as the world around them. What the laggards fail to grasp is that what matters most today is not a company's competitive advantage at a point in time, but its evolutionary advantage over time."
A company's success does not lie on how fast it can grow within a short period of time. It is about how constant it can grow over a long period of time. Take Google for example. Their vision is to organize the world's information i.e to raise the world's IQ. And that vision gives them a lot of space to manuverve and evolve over the years. Unfortunately a lot of companies fail to appreciate that the capacity to evolve is the most important advantage of them all.
Isn't it interesting how you can apply this piece of wise saying into our individual lives as well?
Two questions for you to mull over.
1. Are you equipping yourself with the right skills to compete in the future?
2. Are you giving yourself ample space to manuvere and grow?
posted by Tripp at 4:37 PM
1 Comments:
I'd like to add skills, but then I read the post below about "Just Letting Go." So I just let go...
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