September 2025

The false sense of urgency is an “invisible killer” in modern enterprises. It consumes the team’s energy without substantial output and ultimately damages the long – term competitiveness of the enterprise. Entrepreneurs need to start with “self – awareness”, use tools to achieve “strategic focus”, and integrate the “real sense of urgency” into the team’s DNA through culture building. Only in this way can the team shift from “passive busyness” to “active creation” and move more steadily and further in the fierce business competition.

The real survival state of SMEs is both “cruel” and “vivid”. It reminds us that the “right way” in the business world is never single, but is deeply related to the enterprise stage, industry characteristics, and resource endowment. Entrepreneurs need to extract replicable experience from “survival wisdom” and break through path dependence under the “development pressure”. After all, true “success” is never “living as others expect”, but “growing the toughest roots in one’s own soil”.

PayPal’s story is not only the “mid – life crisis” of a traditional giant but also an epitome of the “innovator’s dilemma” in the digital economy era. For entrepreneurs, the key is not to avoid being subverted, but to become the “subverter” rather than the “subverted” through continuous user insight, model innovation, and ecological construction.