Colin

“Strategy is making trade-offs in competing. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“You would think that this would be whether the entrepreneur’s idea is actually a good one. But finding a good idea is apparently not all that hard. Finding an entrepreneur who can execute a good idea is a different matter entirely. One needs a person who can take an idea from proposal to reality, work the long hours, build a team, handle the pressures and setbacks, manage technical and people problems alike, and stick with the effort for years on end without getting distracted or going insane. Such people are rare and extremely hard to spot.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“We are all plagued by failures - by missed subtleties, overlooked knowledge, and outright errors. For the most part, we have imagined that little can be done beyond working harder and harder to catch the problems clean up after them. We are not in the habit of thinking the way the army pilots did as they looked upon their shiny new Model 299 bomber — a machine so complex no one was sure human beings could try it.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right