Business Quote by Michael C. Mankins

“High-performing companies view planning altogether differently. They want their forecasts to drive the work they actually do. To make this possible, they have to…

— Michael C. Mankins

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

— Larry Page

“Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out…

— Robert G. Thompson

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays…

— James Russell Lowell

“Product development has become a faster, more flexible process, where radically better products don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders…

— Eric Schmidt

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

— John Paulson

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is…

— Bill Gurley

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good…

— Michael Porter

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

— Peter Lynch

“By embracing decision-focused planning, companies will almost certainly find that the quantity and quality of their decisions will improve.”

— Harvard Business School Press

“Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources to present overly optimistic plans. A well-run organization will reward planners…

— Daniel Kahneman

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue…

— Ginni Rometty