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

- Walter Kiechel

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…

- Walter Kiechel

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

- Walter Kiechel

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

- Walter Kiechel

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…

- Walter Kiechel

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…

- Walter Kiechel

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…

- Walter Kiechel

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

- Walter Kiechel

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…

- Walter Kiechel