What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

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.

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.

I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.