During this press conference when the Nokia company began to be sold and Microsoft announced its takeover, Nokia's CEO concluded his speech by saying:
"We didn't do anything wrong, but we still lost."
With that, the entire management team, including himself, burst into tears.
Nokia was a respectable company. He didn't do anything wrong in his business but the world changed too fast and he missed learning and he missed changing, and thus he lost a valuable opportunity to become a big company. Not only did they miss an opportunity to make big money, but they also missed a chance to survive!
The message of this story:
If you don't change, you will lose out to the competition and become a bygone era.
If you don't want to learn new things and your thoughts and mindset don't change with time, you will die in time!
A man is successful as long as he learns, and if he thinks that he has learned enough and that is enough for him, he has set himself up for failure, and one day he will realize this, will make you cry like a successful company owner like Ballmer.
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