No matter how smart you are, if you don’t exchange values, you’ll starve to death. For one thing, being self-sufficient enables survival, but self-sufficiency is only possible if you have your own assets and can borrow from others. However, even with existing assets, one can only survive through minimal labor and effort, which means engaging in productive activities. Thus, having great intelligence and applying that intelligence to productive activities are two different things. Even if you aren’t brilliant, you can survive if you are productive. It’s essential to identify the productive activities in which I excel and those where I need improvement. If I understand that, I must act without looking back. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”
Companies that experience growth stagnation have a loss of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity doesn't mean giving in to every customer request. Still, it does mean putting the customer's perspective, rather than the company's leaders or organization, first when making important business decisions. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”