Nokia
CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we
lost”.
During the press conference to announce NOKIA being
acquired by Microsoft, Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow,
we lost”. Upon saying that, all his management team, himself included,
teared sadly.
Nokia has been a respectable company. They didn’t
do anything wrong in their business, however, the world changed too fast. Their
opponents were too powerful.
They missed out on learning, they missed out on
changing, and thus they lost the opportunity at hand to make it big. Not only
did they miss the opportunity to earn big money, they lost their chance of
survival.
The message of this story is, if you don’t change,
you shall be removed from the competition.
It’s not wrong if you don’t want to learn new
things. However, if your thoughts and mindset cannot catch up with time, you
will be eliminated.
Conclusion:
·
The
advantage you have yesterday, will be replaced by the trends of tomorrow.
·
You
don’t have to do anything wrong, as long as your competitors catch the wave and
do it RIGHT, you can lose out and fail.
·
To
change and improve yourself is giving yourself a second chance.
·
To
be forced by others to change, is like being discarded.
Those who refuse to learn & improve, will
definitely one day become redundant & not relevant to the industry. They
will learn the lesson in a hard & expensive way.
