A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
– Gary Hamel
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QUOTE 13: Change and uncertainty
Strategy in conditions of uncertainty, complexity and change has a very different look to it. On the one hand, strategy must lay out the vision and incentives that determine the evolutionary direction in the enterprise – a complex adaptive system. On the other hand, it must allow for constant learning and updating of models and…
QUOTE 12: Conventional operation
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business…
QUOTE 8: Integrity
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher
QUOTE 6: Scarcity
What makes a resource truly strategic – what gives it the capacity to be the basis for a sustained competitive advantage – is not ubiquity but scarcity. Nicholas Carr
QUOTE 4: Customer feedback
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. Clayton M Christensen
QUOTE 7: Purpose and Potential
You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else’s path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else’s way,you are not going to realizeyour potential. Joseph Campbell