laurels

It's not as if G+ is the leader in the space and able to rest on their laurels while others catch up.

Do they not realize they can't just rest on their laurels while the rest of the industry leaves them behind?

This is exactly what I had been wishing for ever since I got to bring laurels for my country.

Unfortunately, the design is such that you can't have 1 great idea and then just rest on your laurels forever.

And the common willingness to rest on your laurels and deflect blame elsewhere is not going to lead to that willingness.

He also invested in Diaspora, I think he wants to avoid the mistakes a lot of companies make when they are in the lead, and just sit on his laurels.

If anyone deserves the entrepreneur-as-hero laurels, it's these guys.

The folks that stay on top for prolonged periods of time are folks who capitalize on that are able to do that internally instead of resting on their laurels, and frankly Marco has proven that tendency as well.

"a terribly-led company, sitting on its laurels as first-mover and squandering opportunities to move into new markets"As a former employee of that behemoth, I can only say: you hit the nail on the head.

While I don't really approve of the anti-sourceforge attitude, I do understand it; when SF had essentially a monopoly on open source project storage, they chose to milk it and rest on their laurels rather than improve themselves.

She ran for governor on her record as CEO there, but eBay has always seemed to me like a terribly-led company, sitting on its laurels as first-mover and squandering opportunities to move into new markets while startups chip away at its core business.