Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker
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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 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 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 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 14: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in…
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