Max McKeown Quotes

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• Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
• Strategy is about shaping the future.
• Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
• 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…
• All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
• 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…
• 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…
• Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue…
• A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
• Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
• Change is inevitable, progress is not.
• 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…
• The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
• Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.
• Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
• 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…
• We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...
• 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…
• Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.
• 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…

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