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The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

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Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

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Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

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The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is n…

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Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

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A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he…

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Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

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Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

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When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

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Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

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