If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.