And managers, make sure your people are empowered to kill snakes they find, so they don't have to come bother you with every snake they find. Don't play with dead snakes. Too often we spend weeks and months agonizing over decisions that have been, studying them to see if it was the right decision, or revisiting issues again and again. Leave it alone, move on, make the best decisions you can at the time, then move on to something else and quit worrying it. Don't keep trying to resurrect dead snakes.
All opportunities start out looking like snakes.
Every opportunity starts out looking like a snake. Success initiatives, programs, and services are born of taking a problem and finding solutions for it. It's wireless Internet, or mobile connectivity. This is a huge wave that is just beginning to reach the shore. In Europe, there are many countries where the number of cell phones is greater than the number of wireline phones.