Max McKeown Quotes
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.
Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.
What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.
Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.
Only the right pain gets the right gain.
You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.
Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward.
Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.
All we've got is Now. Life, composed of a billion moments, from our first to our last thoughts.
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
There are no perfect leaders.
Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...
If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.