Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
The best CEO’s I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
– Michael E Porter
Futurism is the art of re-perception. Life will change, must change, has changed and suggests how and why. It shows that old paradigms have lost their validity whilst new ones are possible.
– Bruce Sterling
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognise and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
– Alfred P. Sloan
Who succeeds in forming and leading a great group? They are almost always a pragmatic dreamers. They are people who get things done and they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world
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An organisation’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage
– Jack Welch
Nobody can force change on anybody else. It has to be experienced. Unless we invent ways by which paradigm shifts can be experienced by large numbers of people then change will remain a myth
– Eric Trist
