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

Quote by Max McKeown

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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. more

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

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“Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.”

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“Change is inevitable, progress is not.”

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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.”

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

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

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