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Strategic planning is not the application of scientific methods to business decision. It is the application of thought, analysis, imagination, and judgment. Its is responsibility, rather than technique.
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Management-by-drive is a sure sign of confusion. It is an admission of incompetence. It is a sign that management does not think.
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264 |
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A serious cause of business failure is the common assumption that conditions… must be what we think they are or at least what we thing they should be.
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348 |
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Organization design and structure require thinking, analysis, and a systematic approach.
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410 |
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Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. People more often know what they are not good at – and even there, people are more often wrong than right.
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481 |
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It is time to give up thinking of jobs or career paths as we once did and to think in terms of taking on assignments and acquiring competencies one after the other.
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Although listening is often more fun, reading improves comprehension and recall. Whereas listening promotes intuitive thinking, reading activates more analytical processing.
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Once focused on our wants our thoughts can never be at peace, because wants can never be satisfied; not even a billionaire will ever have everything.
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137 |
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All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way.
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…moonshot bets are a company’s best defense against the incremental thinking about innovation that so often leads to growth stalls.
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