The crowd and the energy is incredible. I love going to Saudi Arabia because the energy is just awesome.
People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).
NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.
The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.
Chaos is good for CNN.
I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
The energy in Atlanta is a different type of energy.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
NXT was at a really exciting place and transforming in and of itself, and I find it's always good to be around that kind of environment and those kinds of companies. It just felt right. It was a good fit.
Having too many layers of approval in a dynamic battlefield environment delays our ability to fight and win, especially when troops are engaged in combat.
We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
What's extreme today will not be extreme tomorrow.
I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.
I can't stand the slow pace of Jaipur anymore. I like staying in Mumbai, as everyone is on the move.
So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.
