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Max McKeown is a writer born in 1969, whose works cover a range of fields including business, technology, and personal development.

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“The future is more than the sum of the past”

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Book:The Strategy Book

Source: The Strategy Book

“Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...”

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Author:Max McKeown

“If you don’t start, you’re finished.”

Mind Inspiration Motivation Effortless Mindfulness

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“Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.”

Life Life Lessons Life Quotes Stress Philosphy Of Life

Book:#NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

Source: #NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

“Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Psychology Stress Passive Stronger Today

Book:#NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

Source: #NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

“You can tell a fool they oughta, but can you make them think?”

Thinking Leadership Learning Strategy Wisdom Quotations Foolishness Strategic Adaptability

Book:The Strategy Book

Source: The Strategy Book

“Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.”

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Book:Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

Source: Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

“Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.”

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Author:Max McKeown

“Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...”

Problem Imagination Creativity Innovation Insight Solution Solving

Book:Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

Source: Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

“Strategy is simple, but simple is complex.”

Strategy Strategic Strategy Quotes Strategic Thinking Strategy For Life

Book:The Strategy Book

Source: The Strategy Book

“Let go to get going.”

Let Go Get Going

Author:Max McKeown

“Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.”

Made Stuff Innovation New Stuff

Book:The Truth about Innovation

Source: The Truth about Innovation

“Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.”

Needs Source Innovation

Book:The Truth about Innovation

Source: The Truth about Innovation

“If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.”

Ifs Successful Competitors

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“Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.”

“Strategy is about shaping the future.”

Business Strategy Shaping The Future

Book:The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

Source: The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

“Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.”

Industry Following Thought Provoking Provoking

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“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.”

Moving Energy Effort Greater Tricks Doing Nothing

Author:Max McKeown

“All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”

Successful Adaptation

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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.”

Goal Differences Ability Risk Achieve Events Smart Organization Strategy Competition Reactions Strategist

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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’.”

Thinking Believe Done Today Fun Perfect Built Mark Strategy Competition Website Harvard Zuckerberg

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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.”

Firsts Humans Art War Used Sides Creative Ten Strategy Arguing Council Analytics Athens

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“A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.”

Mind Strategy Meetings Meetings Of The Minds

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.”

Should Together Culture Should Have Strategy Breakfast

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“Change is inevitable, progress is not.”

Progress Inevitable Change Is Inevitable

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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.”

“The real heart of strategy is the strategist.”

Heart Real Strategy Strategist Real Heart

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.”

Spectators Plunge

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“Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.”

Mean Ends Strategy Available Brilliant Routes Desirable

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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.”

Self Today Action Victory Tomorrow Strategy Clever Beneficial Just For Today

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“We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.”

Needs Moving Advantage Perpetual Comparative Advantage

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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.”

Trying Looks Enough Whole Growth Levels Path Products Response Corporate Curves Renewal Strategic Organisation New Paths New Growth

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.”

Thinking Take Time Time To Think Strategist Planners

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“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.”

Order Difficult Team Influence Areas Tasks Objectives Pursue Uncertainty Strategist

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“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.”

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“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?”

People Want Doe Moments Achieve Compare Competitors

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

“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?”

Thinking Ideas Dream Stuff Behinds Plans Written Possibility Strategy Trends Exploring Hopes And Dreams Cool Stuff

Author:Max McKeown

“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.”

Believe Choices Happened Overcoming Inertia

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“Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.”

Happens Together Stuff Makers Thinker Really Cool Get Together Stuff Happens Cool Stuff

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“Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.”

People Ifs Helping Strategy Corporate Engaged

Book:The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

About the Author

Born: 1969
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 40

Books & Sources

The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding ResultsRelated source material

The Strategy BookRelated source material

#NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of NowRelated source material

Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding ResultsRelated source material

The Truth about InnovationRelated source material

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding ResultsRelated source material

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