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> [Most of the experts agree that strategy will have to become more "adaptive", meaning that strategies will change faster based on information from people on the corporation's front lines - dealing with customers, fending off competitors. This won't represent a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/most-of-the-experts-agree-that-strategy-will-have-to-become-more/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/people-believe-that-companies-have-always-had-strategies-dating-back/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

> [People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/people-believe-that-management-consultants-are-mostly-useless/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/people-say-that-ideas-aren-t-important-in-business-okay-people-say/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

> [The experience curve says that your costs should probably decline by 15% or 20% with every doubling in your experience making a product, approximately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/the-experience-curve-says-that-your-costs-should-probably-decline-by/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

> [The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/the-best-discipline-maybe-the-only-discipline-that-really-works-is/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/one-practical-point-many-experts-will-attest-to-is-that-if-you-want/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

> [The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/the-business-schools-could-do-a-better-job-teaching-face-to-face/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

> [What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/what-got-repressed-sometimes-viciously-repressed-by-the-strategy/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/i-argue-that-once-it-became-clear-that-the-most-important-function-of/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/most-of-the-experts-agree-that-strategy-will-have-to-become-more/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kiechel/the-most-important-change-and-it-s-been-going-on-for-at-least-three/)

[Walter Kiechel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kiechel/)

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