Did you know that ...
Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.
Kaplan & Norton, Harvard Business Review January 2008
Various studies done in the past 25 years indicate that 60 to 80% of the companies fall short of the success predicted from their new strategy.
Kaplan & Norton, Harvard Business Review January 2008
"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident ... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Edward J. Smith, 1907. Captain, RMS Titanic, 1912
Captain Smith was planning to retire after the maiden voyage of Titanic.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
“It’s not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most adaptable to change”
Charles Darwin
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