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  • #1
    Max McKeown
    “Strategy is about shaping the future.”
    Max Mckeown, The Strategy Book

  • #2
    Max McKeown
    “With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #3
    Max McKeown
    “Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.”
    Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty

  • #4
    Max McKeown
    “All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”
    Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty

  • #5
    Max McKeown
    “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.”
    Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty

  • #6
    Max McKeown
    “Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #7
    Max McKeown
    “Change is inevitable, progress is not.”
    Max Mckeown, Truth About Innovation: A Small Book About Big Ideas

  • #8
    Max McKeown
    “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.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #9
    Max McKeown
    “Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #10
    Max McKeown
    “There are no perfect leaders.”
    Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty

  • #11
    Max McKeown
    “The real heart of strategy is the strategist.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #12
    Max McKeown
    “Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...”
    Max Mckeown

  • #13
    Max McKeown
    “Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #14
    Max McKeown
    “Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #15
    Max McKeown
    “Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #16
    Max McKeown
    “As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #17
    Max McKeown
    “Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #18
    Max McKeown
    “Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.”
    Max McKeown, #NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

  • #19
    Max McKeown
    “Let go to get going.”
    Max McKeown

  • #20
    Max McKeown
    “The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #21
    Max McKeown
    “Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #22
    Max McKeown
    “For most people, it is better to lean towards action rather than inaction.”
    Max McKeown

  • #23
    Max McKeown
    “The best things happen to those who don't wait.”
    Max McKeown

  • #24
    Max McKeown
    “If life is fast, live faster.”
    Max McKeown, #NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

  • #25
    Max McKeown
    “Only the right pain gets the right gain.”
    Max McKeown, #NOW: The Surprising Truth about the Power of Now

  • #26
    Max McKeown
    “If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #27
    Max McKeown
    “Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

  • #28
    Max McKeown
    “If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.”
    Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results



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