How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.