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
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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 2: Purpose
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. – Gary Hamel
QUOTE 9: Leadership
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela
QUOTE 3: Faith
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith. Charles Spurgeon
QUOTE 11: Passion and purpose
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want…