Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance.

Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

I believe it is very important to learn different fighting styles to make you a flexible fighter.