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Only the Paranoid Survive:
To make it through the valley of death successfully, your first task is to form a mental image of what the company should look like when you get to the other side.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…it takes a lot of conviction and trusting your gut to get ahead of your peers, your staff and your employees while they are still squabbling about which path to take, and set an unhesitating, unequivocal course whose rightness or wrongness will not be known for years.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
Getting through a strategic inflection point represents a fundamental transformation of your company from what you were to what you will be.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…transformation is so hard [because] all parts of the company were shaped by what you had been in the past.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…the transformation implicit in surviving a strategic inflection point involves changing members of management one way or another.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
If you are describing a purpose that deep down you know you can’t achieve, you are dooming your chances of climbing out of the valley of death.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
A person’s time is an extremely valuable yet manifestly finite resource.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
A strategic transformation requires discipline and redeployment of all resources; without them, it turns out to be nothing more than an empty cliché.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
Strategic plans are statements of what we intend to do. Strategic actions are steps we have already taken or are taking which suggest our longer-term intent.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…the most effective way to transform a company is through a series of incremental changes that are consistent with a clearly articulated end result.
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