Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Leadership is all about getting results.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.