I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
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.
Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets. " It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.