What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and th….

The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline..

People believe that companies have always had strategies, dating back at least to likes of Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie, maybe to the contractors wh….

The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the facul….

People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happe….

The experience curve says that your costs should probably decline by 15% or 20% with every doubling in your experience making a product, approximatel….

One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their l….

The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in….

People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up wit….

I argue that once it became clear that the most important function of the CEO was to develop and enact the corporate strategy, that often had the eff….

Most of the experts agree that strategy will have to become more "adaptive", meaning that strategies will change faster based on information from peo….