And sustainability is all about figuring out how to be in business forever. It is about business models that are win/win and lead to happy long term customer and supplier relationships. It is about avoiding the temptation to overeach. It is about avoiding the temptation to mazimize near term profits at the expense of long term health. It is about adapting the business to changing market dynamics. It is about building a team and a culture that can survive the loss of the leader and keep going. And it is about many more things like this.
Given the complexity of the modern Enterprise as a distributed System of Systems [3]. IT agility necessitates a holistic approach; rip-and-replace is untenable. This suggests a flexible collaboration layer that enables dynamic interoperability between people and data, capabilities and policies.
So when I asked Dennis about the moment when the Foursquare team watched the Facebook Places announcement, he said “I got up and told the team that any company can copy what we have built, but we just have to go on and build the things we want to build because nobody else has that roadmap.
It’s striking. Forty years ago, even 20 years ago, a young person’s first thought, or even second or third thought, was certainly not to start a business.
Ed è un sogno lecito, perchè le passioni non si scelgono con la testa, valutando la sbatta e la probabilissima eventualità di finire a fare il cuoco anonimo in un catering tra licenze medie e poveretti senza permesso, ma è un sogno che mi crea un problema:io in ‘sto magico mondo della ristorazione ci ho passato vent’anni. Non facendo il cuoco ma servendo da bere ad un botto di gente estasiata e brillante. Arrivato al lavoro non mi sedevo alla scrivania a smistare le mail, ma tipicamente mi mettevo a strappare la menta per i mojito di una festa elegante, o servivo il cappuccino a Van Basten
But my heroes are different: they want a world where everybody has access to the best technology, to the best hospitals, and making money is a side effect of contributing in a non evil way to the development of our culture.
It’s one thing to miss someone, to feel a void when they’re gone. It’s another to do something with their legacy, to honor them through your actions.
[…] What are we going to do with it?
