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1
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Thinking
that success is forever: Past success is no
guarantee of future success. We cannot keep
doing the same thing, which is why innovation
is so important. |
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2
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Thinking
that we’re in the lead just because we
made some improvements: Competitiveness is
relative. We can make improvements, but if
others make greater improvements, we are still
relatively less competitive. |
| 3 |
Being
like a hamster on a Ferris wheel — running very fast
and going nowhere: On the contrary, we should
be like a dancer on a moving surface — flexible
and quick to adapt to the changing environment. |
| 4 |
Adopting
a no-risk policy: The
greatest risk is to take no risk. We must
dare to dream, dare to do, dare to
make
a difference. |
| 5 |
Focusing
only on perfecting the known: By
the time we perfect the known, the world
would
have moved on. We
must also imperfectly seize the unknown. |
| 6 |
1
+ 1 < 2: Less is achieved when
the group operates at a level where the
group IQ is lower than the individual IQs.
By enhancing the synergies of the different
individual contributions, the group can
be more effective. 1 + 1 can be more than
2. |
| 7 |
Thinking
that we can’t
do it because we lack resources: The concept
of “Singapore limited” has to be
changed to that of “Singapore
unlimited”. We need to tap on our imagination — the most unlimited
resource we have. |
