Kenichi Ohmae quotes
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“Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.
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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.”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”
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“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”
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“The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional
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“Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional
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“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.”
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“Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.”
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“New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : Kenichi Ohmae (1997). “El fin del estado-nación: el ascenso de las economías regionales”, p.258, Andres Bello
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“Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.”
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“More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional
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“What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.”
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“In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.”
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : "The Myth and Reality of the Japanese Corporation". Chief Executive Magazine, Summer 1981.
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