More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

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?

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

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.

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.

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.