Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking.
Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
The strategist’s method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power.
New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State.
Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.
The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.
More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can’t function normally.
Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.