Aaron K. Olson > Quotes

“Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.” — Emil Zatopek”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“Effective strategy formation involves solving problems in a way that adds value, is unique when compared to other options, and is sustainable over time.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“No rigid protocol. Only guidelines. Too much protocol can be suffocating and become an end in itself. Each day is special. Each day is different.” — Bernd Heinrich, Why We Run (p. 225)”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“Leadership without strategic thinking risks not creating meaningful value,”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Unfortunately, too many runners believe that they must train hard to run well and end up doing too much to try to compensate for their genetic deficits.” — Tim Noakes, Lore of Running (p. 291)”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“only then do they learn that too much training was more detrimental to their performance than too little training.” — Tim Noakes, Lore of Running (p. 293)”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“From an academic perspective, we see strategic thinking at the intersection of three fields of study: cognitive psychology, systems thinking, and game theory.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“it stands as one of the best examples of both the characteristics and challenges to the approach to which they aspired, which demonstrates an important approach to collaboration that we will continue to examine as we look more closely at the various manifestations of strategic leadership.”
― Aaron K. Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Ask yourself, “Am I excited about this workout?” If the answer is “no,” take an easy day, or skip running altogether.”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“we see strategic thinking at the intersection of three fields of study: cognitive psychology, systems thinking, and game theory.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Disruptive change requires a new type of strategic leadership.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“The best directive leaders we spoke with saw themselves as building a system.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Visionary leaders are passionate and unrelenting in the pursuit of a particular view of the world.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“The commission was founded through legislation “to establish the truth in relation to past events as well as the motives for and circumstances in which gross violations of human rights have occurred, and to make the findings known in order to prevent a repetition of such acts in future.”
― Aaron K. Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Applying cognitive psychology helps you manage your biases and blind spots.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“there is a limit to the amount of training the body can benefit from.” — Tim Noakes, Lore of Running”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“Systems thinking helps you broaden the slate of factors you consider when evaluating options and prioritizing actions.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Just as a callus gets thicker and stronger with use, your body adapts to higher levels of pain. You need to push the envelope to force your brain and body to accept higher levels of discomfort.”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free

“Strategic leaders create tremendous value and impact if they can effectively solve the riddles of strategy formation and strategy execution.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“The incubating leader defines personal success on the basis of the success of others.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“You need to be more strategic.” When someone receives this kind of feedback, what does it mean?”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Game theory helps you further recognize the ramifications of your decisions and actions and take steps to mitigate opposing forces.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“we define the strategic leader as the individual who—regardless of role, position, or title—intentionally takes advantage of opportunities to think strategically, influence others toward a chosen course of action, and garner needed buy-in, commitment, and advocacy.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Strategic thinking without leadership risks becoming an intellectual exercise,”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“Strategy execution involves delivering on the proposed solution.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“The questions we ask are a key influence on how we interpret and interact with the environment.”
― Aaron Olson, Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

“I suspected that the most highly motivated and the best runners would try almost anything no matter how bizarre, if it was recommended for improvement on the basis of some rationale.” — Bernd Heinrich, Why We Run (p. 235)”
― Aaron Olson, Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free