I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
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?
Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.
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.
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.
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.