The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.