Agile Decision Making Quotes

We’ve got to learn to govern in Internet time.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.