"Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction."

"Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking. Faced with problems, trends, events, or situations tha…"

"In business as on the battlefield, the object of strategy is to bring about the conditions most favorable to one's ow…"

"Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the …"

"The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? And to pu…"

"In strategic thinking, one first seeks a clear understanding of the particular character of each element of a situati…"

"In practice, the managerial decision to tackle organizational and systems changes is made even more difficult by the …"

"Top managers are always slow to point the finger of responsibility at headquarters or at themselves. When global faul…"

"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building syste…"

"I think that by constantly questioning what goes on around them, writers end up with the gift of foresight."