Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
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’. — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
“You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.” — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens. — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
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… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations. — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
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… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
