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Strategy is about shaping the future.
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Business
Shaping The Future
Strategy
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Change is inevitable, progress is not.
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Change Is Inevitable
Inevitable
Progress
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Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.
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Plunge
Spectators
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Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.
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Innovation
Made
Stuff
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The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
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Heart
Real
Strategy
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A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
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Meetings
Mind
Strategy
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Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
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Culture
Should Have
Together
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Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
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Sports
Team Building
Teamwork
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Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.
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Take Time
Thinking
Time To Think
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Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.
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Ceo
Solo
Strategy
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Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
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Following
Provoking
Thought Provoking
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We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.
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Advantage
Moving
Needs
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All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
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Adaptation
Successful
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Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.
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Really Cool
Stuff Happens
Together
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Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
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Brilliant
Mean
Strategy
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If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.
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Competitors
Ifs
Successful
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Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.
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Innovation
Needs
Source
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Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
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Helping
People
Strategy
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Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.
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Predictable
Entrepreneurs
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You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
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Dirt
Gold
Spot
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There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
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Immense
Numbers
Businesses
Entrepreneurs
Organisations
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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?
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Doe
People
Want
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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.
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Effort
Energy
Moving
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At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
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Ahead
Surge
Approaches
Considerable
Further
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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.
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Order
Tasks
Team
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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.
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Clever
Self
Victory
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Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.
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Cats
Entrepreneurs
Herd
Organisations
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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’.
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Believe
Fun
Thinking
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Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
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Ambition
Entrepreneur
Succeed
Hire
Likely
Skill
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Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
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Believe
Choices
Inertia
Overcoming
Change Future Believe
Alter
Guiding
Tweaking
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Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.
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Art
War
Creative
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The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
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Differences
Organization
Smart
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The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.
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Constant
Fallen
Great Idea
Profitable
Renewal
Seasons
Work Great Quality
Deliver
Forgot
Founder
Packard
Perfectly
Prices
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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
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Details
Online
Practise
Rivals
Thrive
Bookstore
Implemented
Grow Better Way
Puts
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How much time have you invested in thinking about strategy? How many options have you considered before the plan was written? How have you ensured that the thinking behind the plan is challenged? How much time do you spend exploring trends, possibilities and cool stuff? How much time is spent playing with ideas, hopes and dreams?
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Dream
Ideas
Thinking
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Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.
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Curves
Growth
Trying
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Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.
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Imagination
Powerful
Together Again
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Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.
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Ideas
Senior
Thinking
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