Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.
The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.