I-a lucrurile asa cum sunt … nu le folosi prin abuz. Cu ciocanul se bat cuie … nu incerca sa te speli pe dinti cu el … In business (ca sa citez un clasic in viata) “sunt posibilitati care se poate si posibilitati care nu se poate!” … E bine sa incepi discuti al caror deznodamant (oricare ar fi el) ti-l poti asuma.

Lucrurile pe care le poti face, le poti controla sunt cele spre care trebuie sa-ti indrepti intreaga atentie si intregul efort.

Goals, not competitors. When you focus on your company’s goals, you are focusing on something you have control over, you make strong decisions, and everybody knows what success looks like. When you obsess about your competitors, you are focusing on something over which you don’t have control, you make bad decisions, and nobody is sure what success looks like, since the company’s actions are in reaction to a third party. Being fiercely competitive is fine, you can hate that your competitors are performing better than you, and you can be hyper-paranoid about what might happen to your business, but the best way to compete in the market is to focus on those things you can strive toward independent of what anybody else does. While this point may sound like motherhood and apple pie, in reality, it can be extremely challenging because everybody else (the media, your mom, customers, vendors, etc.) are looking at the landscape and constantly commenting that X is doing this and you’re not, or X is gaining market share from you, etc. So, clearly some part of creating goals is going to be based in market realities, and some part of market realities is going to be driven by existing and emergent competitors. Nonetheless, I am confident that nobody understands where or when their ultimate competition will emerge, and by obsessing about existing competitors instead of clearly defined goals, you make it that much easier for the unforeseen competitor to swoop in and bonk you in the head with the Mallet of Justice(tm).

via Madalin, from Dick Costolo

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