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

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

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

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

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?'

Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.