Constantinos C. Markides quotes

“Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.”
-- Constantinos C. Markides

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“Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.”
-- Constantinos C. Markides

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“Strategy is all about combining choices of what to do and what not to do into a system that creates the requisite fit between what the environment needs and what the company does.”
-- Constantinos C. Markides

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“The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.”
-- Constantinos C. Markides

Source : "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....”

“The right to happiness is fundamental.”

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.”

Source : 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”

“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

“Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.”

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”

“Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.”