What Kind Of A Society Are We

Most Companies Don't Die Because They Are Wrong; They Die Because They Don't Commit Themselves. They Fritter Away Their Momentum And Their Valuable Resources While Attempting To Make A Decision. The Greatest Danger Is Standing Still.

In The First Round Of Work Simplification...you Can Reasonably Expect A 30 To 50 Percent Reduction...to Implement The Actual Simplification, You Must Question Why Each Step Is Performed. Typically, You Will Find That Many Steps Exist In Your Work Flow For No Good Reason. Often They Are There By Tradition Or Because Formal Procedure Ordains It, And Nothing Practical Ordains It.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

How Can You Motivate Yourself To Continue To Follow A Leader When He Appears To Be Going Around In Circles?

The Boom Was Healthy Too, Even With Its Excesses. Because What This Incredible Valuation Craze Did Was Draw Untold Sums Of Billions Of Dollars Into Building The Internet Infrastructure. The Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars That Got Invested In Telecommunications, For Example.