“Intelligence is that you don’t understand something yet, but perhaps you do, and that you let yourself sink into something that you don’t yet know where it is, but by letting it happen you will discover things. That is the law of potentiality. That is where wisdom can be found, you don’t yet know where it is, but by letting it happen you will discover things. You have to give yourself that space, this is also the trust in yourself.” And you have to listen to each other very well, and respond to each other very quickly.
In fact, that is exactly what Uber and Amazon and with them many other 'new' companies do: know very well what you don't know yet, but are able to respond maximally to opportunities that arise in the market.
Trevor Kalanick (Uber) started out with the idea of a hospital cfo email list limo rental service . Then it became regular taxis, more regular taxis, super taxis, UberEATS (food delivery), UberRUSH (bike couriers). Somewhere, at a highly abstract level, the idea is the same, but it is always being re-imagined.
Amazon, it has been said, was once a bookseller with a nimble marketplace. Here too, the idea is the same somewhere, at a highly abstract level, but there is a constant search for an alternative application of the achievements of the nimble marketplace.
Uber makes a big loss, Amazon makes a very modest profit.
Both companies are worth tens of billions of euros.
Just tell me where that appreciation comes from.
It is the potentiality. The realization of not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow, organizing your reaction speed to that, and with this short-term ignorance to be able to react faster than everyone else to opportunities that arise in the market the day after tomorrow.
We simply come back to Darwin. Survival of the adaptable .