Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
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?
Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.
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.
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.
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
People have misconceptions about Marilyn Manson, of course, but they can think what they want.
To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?