In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.
When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.
In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.
In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.
I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.