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Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

source: - "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.

Topics: Vision, Helping, Rowing, Wrong Direction

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It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

source: - Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”

Topics: Life, Change, Men, Creatures Of Habit

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

Topics: Brain, Different, Analysis, Reintegration, Brain Power

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

source: - Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

Topics: Challenges, Assumption, Prevailing

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

source: - Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

Topics: Thinking, Analysis, Starting, Strategic Thinking

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Topics: Would Be, Needs, Purpose, Strategic, Strategic Planning

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

Topics: Team, Leader, Use, Honda

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

source: - Kenichi Ohmae (1997). “El fin del estado-nación: el ascenso de las economías regionales”, p.258, Andres Bello

Topics: Order, Creepy, World

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

Topics: Would Be, Needs, Strategy

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

source: - Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

Topics: Failing, Strategy, Premature

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

Topics: Economy, Function, Left

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

source: - "The Myth and Reality of the Japanese Corporation". Chief Executive Magazine, Summer 1981.

Topics: Japan, Organization, People

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