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.

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

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.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

When I/Don’t know/What to say, /Let me/Listen.

The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Looks can be decieving

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

This is no time to make new enemies.