Doing nothing wrong

“We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost” – Nokia CEO’s last speech

In school, you didn’t do anything wrong, you win.
In business, you didn’t do anything wrong, you lose.

That’s the huge gulf between school and business. The thing I’m still trying to learn.

That to win in business, you got to keep doing wrong things, taking the wrong bets nobody takes.

So that one day, one wrong thing ends up being the right thing.

And people start writing books about how you were a visionary and saw it was the right thing all along. But you know, nobody knew at the time, including yourself. Perhaps all you had was a hunch. That’s it.

Sometimes, doing nothing wrong is the most wrong thing to do.

I need to do more wrong things.