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Max McKeown (born in London, October 1969) is an English writer, consultant, and researcher specialising in innovation strategy, leadership and culture. He has written six influential books and conducts research with Warwick Business School (Young, 2008). He is a fellow of the RSA. He served on the Advisory Board for the Rollins Center for eBusiness. He earned his Masters in Business Administration and PhD from the Warwick Business School under the supervision of Professor David Wilson and Professor Sotirios Paroutis, who was in turn supervised by Andrew Pettigrew.

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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 that the thinking behind the plan is challenged? How much time do you spend exploring trends, possibilities and cool stuff? How much time is spent playing with ideas, hopes and dreams?

Dream, Dreams, Ideas, Plan, Spend, Thinking

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Clever, Options, Self, Tomorrow, Victory

Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.

Strategists, Take Time, Think, Thinking, Time, Time To Think

Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.

Curves, Growth, Organisation, Response, Trying

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

Following, Industry, Provoking, Rules, Thought Provoking

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Heart, Real, Strategist, Strategy

Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.

Apart, Imagination, Possibilities, Powerful, Putting, Together Again

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Differences, Events, Make, Organization, Smart, Strategy

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

Innovation, Made, Stuff, Useful

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Brilliant, Desirable, Ends, Mean, Strategy

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

Believe, Fun, Thinking, Today, Website, Zuckerberg

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Effort, Energy, Moving, Nothing, Redirect, Time

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

Change, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable, Progress

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Engaged, Helping, People, Strategy

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

Change, Competitors, Ifs, Rules, Successful

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 difficult objectives.

Difficult, Directly, Order, Task, Tasks, Team

What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?

Compare, Competitors, Doe, People, Want

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 we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

Alter, Believe, Choices, Happened, Overcoming, Redirecting

Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

Ceo, Solo, Sports, Strategy, Team Building, Teamwork

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Adaptation, Failure, Success, Successful

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