Statue of Liberty

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveMidnight Shift Yield Obsession Strategic PatternSemiconductor Optimism as Naming Philosophy Identity & CultureWartime Childhood as Resilience Training Risk DoctrineStaff Up Before the Breakthrough Cornerstone MoveFury-Driven Reverse Logic at Crossroads Signature MoveHarvard Feast Carried Everywhere Competitive AdvantageInsider Management at Every Level Strategic PatternTechnological Inflection Points Level the Field Operating PrincipleSolitude and Classical Music as Thinking Fuel Identity & CultureFailure Never Accepted, Setbacks Understood Signature MovePublish Papers to Build Standing Signature MoveEnvironment Over Individual Talent Cornerstone MoveProcess-Level Problem Solving on the Factory Floor Cornerstone MoveSelf-Teach Past Every Gatekeeper Identity & CultureGenerational Dream as Fuel Signature MoveImmigrant Hunger Never Turns Off Decision FrameworkCommon Sense Over Ideology Operating PrincipleNever-Done-Yet Restlessness Cornerstone MoveSmall Grocery to Sprawling Empire Acquisition Signature MoveVolcano Island Origins as Identity Fuel Identity & CultureAmerica as Opportunity Machine Signature MoveMind Always Racing Forward Signature MoveCross-Aisle Political Access Cornerstone MoveBrainpower-On-It Problem Solving Competitive AdvantageSidewalk-to-Boardroom Hustle DNA

Primary Evidence

"On the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor are the following lines of poetry: “Keep your ancient lands, keep your legendary splendor!” She cries out silently, “Give me your tired, poor, fearful people, They want to breathe the air of freedom. Send those who have lost their homes and long endured storms over here, I raise my lamp, Waiting quietly beside this golden gate!” [1]"

Source:Autobiography of Morris Chang: Volume 1, 1931-1964

"I had a dream the other night. I was a character in the movie *Planet of the Apes,* the original and still the best of the series. I was walking along a river. I wasn’t sure where I was. Crazy stuff was happening all around me. Then I looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty. I knew I was in New York, the center of everything, that place of endless possibilities, where the future really does live in your head and your hands. That image focused me. It motivated me. I knew it was time to take care of business, time to get busy writing this book."

Source:How Far Do You Want to Go?

Appears In Volumes

Autobiography of Morris Chang: Volume 1, 1931-1964 How Far Do You Want to Go?