Thread by @GeorgeSilverman

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin

This is a profound lesson that strong, intelligent people ignore at their peril.

The winners are the adaptable and the agile.

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Past a certain base level, strength and intelligence are relatively unimportant.

What you want to concentrate on, all MindSkills that are learnable:

Cleverness,
Creativity
Agility
Adaptability
Vision
Rational optimum
Calculated risk-taking (experimentation)

I remember once being in a situation where I was competing with AT&T in a particular service area (conference calls).

We ran circles around them with our agility and adaptability. We would think up and implement features in an hour when they took months to schedule a meeting.

How to increase your agility and adaptability: #MindSkillsTemplate

▢ Learn to make fast decisions, with high payoff and low risk
▢ Concentrate on the time-limiting constraints
▢ Streamline, simplify, easify
▢ "Lean and mean (effective)"
▢ Experiment

▢ Be unpredictable. Do the unexpected
▢ Reward cleverness, creativity, ethical corner-cutting/shortcuts
▢ Do safe destructive testing
▢ Embrace "Less is More"
▢ Don't stress "hard work." Stress max output for min. input. Let the "Strang" work hard. You work smart.

▢ Use "First Principles" thinking
▢ Reduce to fundamentals
▢ Go up a level of abstraction
▢ Get the overview, go meta, analyze the process
▢ Build a simple system
▢ Use/build the tools (David's Slingshot)

▢ Focus on the changes, the anomalies, the "That's Odd."
▢ Anticipate the short-term and near-intermediate changes (easy)
▢ Don't try to predict the long-term trends.
▢ Be the disruptor, not the disrupted
▢ Either operate with stealth or build in public. In-between, no

It's easy to outmaneuver the strong, smart, lumbering giant that has outgrown its efficient usefulness.

Stay away from (or join) the giant who can dance. —George Silverman

Step lively!