The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

- Kenichi Ohmae

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

- Kenichi Ohmae

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all t…

- Kenichi Ohmae

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

- Kenichi Ohmae

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

- Kenichi Ohmae

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

- Kenichi Ohmae

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that de…

- Kenichi Ohmae

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

- Kenichi Ohmae

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

- Kenichi Ohmae