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

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

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

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.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

The perfection of loneliness is you can do whatever you want by yourself.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your queen to capture the king.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

Work done by human beings for human beings.