Max McKeown
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March 2012
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“Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.”
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“Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.”
― Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty
― Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty
“Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.”
― The Strategy Book
― The Strategy Book
“The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.”
― The Strategy Book
― The Strategy Book
“Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.”
― The Strategy Book
― The Strategy Book
“Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.”
― The Strategy Book
― The Strategy Book



































