Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves. Max McKeown More Quotes by Max McKeown More Quotes From Max McKeown Strategy and culture should have breakfast together. Max McKeown should-havetogetherculture A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. Max McKeown strategymeetingsmind The real heart of strategy is the strategist. Max McKeown strategyrealheart Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far. Max McKeown provokingthought-provokingfollowing All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation. Max McKeown adaptationsuccessful 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. Max McKeown choicesovercomingbelieve Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge. Max McKeown plungespectators 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. Max McKeown tasksteamorder Change is inevitable, progress is not. Max McKeown change-is-inevitableinevitableprogress We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage. Max McKeown advantagemovingneeds Innovation is new stuff that is made useful. Max McKeown innovationmadestuff 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. Max McKeown seniorideasthinking Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners. Max McKeown time-to-thinktake-timethinking 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. Max McKeown victoryselfclever If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors. Max McKeown competitorssuccessfulifs Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means. Max McKeown strategybrilliantmean Strategy is about shaping the future. Max McKeown shaping-the-futurestrategybusiness 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. Max McKeown smartdifferencesorganization 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. Max McKeown effortenergymoving Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future. Max McKeown innovationsourceneeds
