When venture investor Natalie Fratto is determining which start-up founder to support, she doesn't just look for intelligence or charisma; she looks for adaptability. In this insightful talk, Fratto shares three ways to measure your "adaptability quotient" — and shows why your ability to respond to change really matters.
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Wow I didn’t think I was that early. Good video though
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Very useful, thank you!
Is it just me or does she sounds like the alux.com narrator? Love her voice and her insights BTW.
Really? I thought she sounds like she’s a bit nervous. But I don’t know alux.com narrator. Maybe you’re right.
Question: Isn’t she in a way asking to overthink?
Thinking of Moore’s Law when she spoke of tech rapidly increasing its sophistication
the consequences of failure to adapt is a topic in project management that always fascinated me
Improvise.
Adapt.
Overcome.
Then give a TED talk about it.
There is something unsettling about hearing a Ghandi quote pertaining to ego death and nihilism used to promote adaptability toward goal achievement based in an obsessive, consumerism system where the worth of a human is measured at every turn be it what they do, think, or acheive but never truly found in the intrinsic value of existence. The world is ever changing because we have created an unstable world within the world, one which discards people who don’t fit, pushing them to the fringes of society or locking them away in wards or prisons. Why ‘speed up’ to match a broken world when adapting to insanity merely leaves one insane?
Ghandi sought to become zero, to strip his ego, his possesions, his emotional and mental constructs from himself because he understood there was no adapting to the world of attachment, only slipping free. When you realize you are already enough, there is nothing to achieve and it is impossible to fail. You adapt because nothing has changed.
Weak people have always been sorted out. At first it was nature and now it’s society but that doesn’t make much difference in the end.
Excellent comment and well written.
The age of technology bring evens more emphasis to
*”Survival of the fittest”*
Like my car. The indicators/lights & windscreenwipers/screenwash were on opposites sides to what I was used to, but it comes to me easily now (after a couple of months)
Step one, get a trophy for showing up. Step two, virtue signal about climate change. Step three, watch Trump get reelected in 2020.
Brava!!!! That’s what should be asked. Mam, I must. Say you may be onto something.
Timothy.
Basically Darwin’s rule of “its not the strongest who survive but the quickest ones that can adapt to change”.
yes. i call it, shifting ..on the fly. vision comes after stillness, which comes after asking.
The KODAK Company did the same thing. They were so stuck on exploiting the film they had and not exploring the future of digital!