Adaptability

Consider:

It is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.
-- Charles Darwin

It's funny how Darwin's words apply equally to species as they do to companies, products, and code.

Problem Solving

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
-- Albert Einstein

Performance Management

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
-- Robert Heinlein

The Art of Troubleshooting

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain