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Successful businesses tend to continue implementing the ideas that made them successful. But in a rapidly changing world, ideas
Successful businesses tend to continue implementing the ideas that made them successful. But in a rapidly changing world, ideas
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2012-11-11
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Successful businesses tend to continue implementing the ideas that made them successful. But in a rapidly changing world, ideas often become obsolete overnight. What worked in the past won’t necessarily work in the future. In order to thrive in the future, you must constantly create new ideas for every aspect of your business. In fact, you must continually generate new ideas just to keep your head above water. Businesses that aren’t creative about their future may not survive.
Although Bill Gates is the richest, most successful man on the planet, he did not anticipate the Internet. Now he’s scrambling to catch up. If Bill Gates can miss a major aspect of his industry, it can happen to you in your industry. Your business needs to continually innovate and create its future. Gates is now constantly worried about the future of Microsoft. Here’s what he said in a recent interview in U.S. News World Report: "Will we be replaced tomorrow? No. In a very short time frame, Microsoft is an incredibly strong company. But when you look to the two-to-three-year time frame, I don’t think anyone can say with a straight face that any technology company has a guaranteed position. Not Intel, not Microsoft, not Compaq, not Dell, take any of your favorites. And that’s totally honest."
You may remember that in 1985 the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were the best-selling toy on the market. But after Coleco Industries introduced their sensational line of dolls they became complacent and didn’t create any new toys worth mentioning. As a result. Coleco went bankrupt in 1988.
The most successful businesses survive in the long term because they constantly reassess their situations and reinvest themselves accordingly. The 3M Company has a 15% rule: employees are encouraged to spend 15% of their time developing new ideas on any project they desire; it’s no surprise, then, that 3M has been around since 1902.
Most businesses are not willing to tear apart last year’s model of success and build a new one. Here’s a familiar analogy to explain why they are lulled into complacency: imagine that your business is like a pot of lobsters; to cook lobsters, you put them into a pot of warm water and gradually turn up the heat; the lobsters don’t realize they’re being cooked because the process is so gradual. As a result, they become complacent and die without a struggle. However, if you throw a lobster into the pot when the water is boiling, it will desperately try to escape. This lobster is not lulled by a slowly changing environment. It realizes instantly that it’s in a bad environment and takes immediate action to change its status.
Judging from the context, "to keep your head above water" (Paragraph 1) probably means ______.
选项
A、to be drown
B、to keep out of financial difficulty
C、to keep away from danger
D、to protect you from water
答案
B
解析
这是一道词义题。题干中的信号词出自于文章第一段第五句话中。文章第一段指出:在过去能够起作用的东西在将来不一定就能够奏效;为了能在未来兴旺,你就必须不断为你企业的各个方面创造新的观念;实际上,你必须不断创造新观念就是为了避免破产;那些对其未来没有创造性的企业不可能生存。这说明,该短语的意思应该是“免遭破产之灾”。B“避免财政困难”,与文章的意思符合。A和D是该短语的字面意思,与文章的意思不符;C明显与文章的意思不符合。
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