Getting It Wrong

Tom Peters publishes a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson" in Getting It Wrong.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblins of little minds. Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannonballs, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

This idea is also expressed as Strong Opinions, Weakly Held by Bob Sutton.

This is really good advice for revolutionaries in that we have to keep testing our ideas against reality and change those ideas when needed. Those ideas must be fiercely debated and argued so that they are strongly held “as hard as cannonballs”.