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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.-Jack Welch

#business #strategy #longterm #shortterm #gameplan #jackWelch

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#roles #productmanagement #plan #culture #landscape

Perfection is a direction, not a place! Having a clearly defined direction makes it easier to focus and evaluate your improvement efforts.-Henrik Kniberg

#vision #business #perfection #direction #leadership #Perfection #place #direction #improvement #efforts #Henrik #Kniberg #southwest #south #eastern #orient #east #north #west #occidental #location #southern #way #southeast #western #locate #northern #globe #europe #polar #peninsular #occident #draftFlow

Managers think that everyone knows the high-level goal, and then it turns out that each person has a different answer when we ask them what that goal is. -Henrik Kniberg

#culture #goal #strategy #milestones #leadership

Instead of asking “Why did we fail? Who screwed up?” ask “What did we learn, and what will we try next? -Henrik Kniberg

#culture #execution #fail #learning #HenrikKniberg

If you approach the situation with an open mind, it’s possible to help an ineffective leader turn things around-unknown

#draftflow #culture #execution

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader

#culture #vision #leadership

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.-Paul Hawken

#management #culture #vision #problemsolving #draftflow

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion-Jack Welch

#business #vision #drive #completion

Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.-Don Corleone

#culture #vision #landscape #draftflow

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.-Scott Adams

#culture #strategy #values #problemsolving

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.-Charles Duhigg

#business #value #vision #pnl #profit

*Culture* is like the *wind*. It is invisible; yet its *effect* can be seen and felt

#culture #values #wind #empowering

*Anything* that is measured and watched, improves

#culture #values #continousimprovements

“Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless.” -Morris Chang

“Understand when the discussion is an debate or an dialogue. In an dialogue you share knowledge and try to understand each other. In an debate you usually try to win and don’t listen as much” -Unknown

“There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” -William Hague

“There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.” -Philip Kotler

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." -Michael E. Porter

“Success can be measured by the sum of problem solved” -Unknown

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” -Sun Tzu

“Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.” -Robert Filek

"Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point." — Henry Mintzberg

“Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action.” -Ellie Pidot

“Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.” -Michael Porter

”Replicate first, then innovate” -Unknown

“Perfect moves hold you back from moves at all.” -Unknown

”Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” —Warren Bennis

”Leaders who only have a hammer in their toolbox to solve problems sees nails everywhere“ -Unknown

“Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.” -Venture Capitalist John Doer

“Hope is not a strategy.” - Vince Lombardi

“Garbage in, Garbage out”

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“Garbage in, Garbage out”

“Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.” -Seth Godin

”First seek to understand, then to be understood.” -Unknown

“Failure is nothing more than a chance to revise your strategy.” -Anonymous

“Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.” -Larry Bossidy

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." — Benjamin Franklin

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

“Be real and adjust your strategy according to honest results.” -Charles Caleb Colton

"An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." — Jack Welch

“Always hire people smarter and better than the interviewer, otherwise you will have a constant decline of skills in the company” -Unknown

“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” -Lee Bolman

"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more." — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“A strategy is necessary because the future is unpredictable.” -Robert Waterman

”A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.“ —Lao Tzu