Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.