From the stage
Twenty-seven seconds, and the phrase I've built much of my career around:
"The future does not necessarily belong to the big organization. It belongs to those who are fast."
Those who are agile, who can change their ideas, their behaviours and their approach faster than ever before.
Why it matters
Size used to be the ultimate advantage: more resources, more reach, more staying power. Today, speed often beats size. A small, fast team can spot an opportunity, test it and scale it while a larger organization is still scheduling the meeting about it. Big organizations can be fast too, but only if they decide to be.
The takeaway
- Where is your organization slow by design: approvals, budgets, hand-offs?
- Remove one step from a process that slows you down.
- Measure speed as seriously as you measure cost.
From the Stage is a weekday series of short clips from more than 30 years of keynotes, and the leadership lessons that still matter.
