Occupation: Writer Birth: 1969
Strategy is about shaping the future..
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that ….
Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens..
How much time have you invested in thinking about strategy? How many options have you considered before the plan was written? How have you ensured th….
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various ….
Change is inevitable, progress is not..
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation..
Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners..
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds..
The real heart of strategy is the strategist..
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together..
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far..
We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage..
Innovation is new stuff that is made useful..
Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook b….
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for ….
Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are sen….
The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively….
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redi….
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more cre….
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO..