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Decisions come in two types: irreversible one-way doors that demand slow, deliberate, high-consultation analysis, and reversible two-way doors that can be made quickly by individuals or small groups. The error organizations make as they grow is applying the heavyweight Type 1 process to Type 2 decisions, which produces slowness, risk-aversion, and diminished invention.
An organization must perpetually operate as if in 'Day 1,' meaning experimental, customer-obsessed, and fast-moving, because 'Day 2 is stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death.' Defending Day 1 requires true customer obsession, resisting proxies like process for its own sake, eagerly adopting external trends, and making high-velocity decisions.
To produce outsized wins, a company must accept proportionally large and frequent failures, because the payoff distribution of experiments is asymmetric—a single success can pay for thousands of failed experiments many times over. Most large organizations embrace invention in word but cannot tolerate the string of failed experiments required to achieve it.