There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
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It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not receiving feedback on your performance.
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.
You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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