[The Law of Sacrifice] You have to give up something in order to get something
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[...] If you want to be successful today, [companies] should give something up. There are three things to sacrifice: product line, target market, and constant change [...] reduce the product line, not expand it [...] the second sacrifice, target market. Where is it written that [companies] have to appeal to everybody? [...] The target is not the market. That is, the apparent target of [the company's] marketing is not the same as the people who will actually buy the product [...] the third sacrifice: constant change. Where is it written that [companies] have to change [their] strategy every year at budget review time? If [companies] try to follow the twists and turns of the market, [they] are bound to wind up off the road.
The best way to maintain a consistent position is not to change it in the first place.
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(…) a phenomenon we call the endowed progress effect, whereby people provided with artificial advancement toward a goal exhibit greater persistence toward reaching the goal.
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Source : The Endowed Progress Effect: How Artificial Advancement Increases Effort, 2006, Journal of Consumer research
This echoes the words of Steve Jobs. "Focus is to say no to 1,000 good ideas."