New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

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?

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

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.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.