Survival is Not Enough/Godin 13-17

14 Business That Don’t Change Are in Danger: Winners change; losers don’t

15 The first is that you should never take a job that requires you to bring your own grease rag to work. Second, jobs in which you don’t initiate change are never as challenging, fun or well paid as those in which you do. And third, companies that don’t change, vanish (my snack bar is now a shoe store)

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence—only in constant improvement and constant change. That is, excellent firms of tomorrow will cherish impermanence—and thrive on chaos. Tom Peters

16 Today entropy rules…things rarely become orderly on their own.

17. …permanent adjustments to the status quo:

1) The speed at which we make decisions is not the factor that limits the speed of business.
2) The Net has made information close to free and close to ubiquitous…
3) A provincial worldview created island of stability.
4) Metcalfe’s law (networks get more powerful when they connect more people) has reached infinity