“A good strategy does more than urge us forward toward a goal or vision,” says Richard Rumelt. “A good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcoming them.”

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“The reason why successful companies fail is they invest in things that provide the most immediate and tangible evidence of achievement. And the reason why they have such a short time horizon is that they’re run by people like you and I. And we then apply that very same thinking process in our personal lives.”

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Although Woolf was referring largely to the social, cultural and financial obstacles that faced females in the early part of the 20th century, securing a ‘room of one’s own’ – a safe place in which to reflect, dream and create – remains as challenging and universal today.

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According to Margaret Heffernan, author of Willful Blindness: “What goes on in the field is too complex and changes too quickly and unpredictably for any one leader to be able to anticipate or even keep up with events.”

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What do Kodak, Blockbuster, Nokia, Yahoo and Meccano have in common? Once mighty global brands, they’re either dead or loaded with debt and mortally wounded. The reason? Either they didn’t see the cliff coming or they chose to ignore the warning signs…

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In his search for Truth, Gautama Buddha found silence an invaluable companion. It was “not wordlessness or noiselessness”, according to one account of the silence of Buddah. “It had a transforming power, permeating and filling the atmosphere around him with such intensity that people seated at his presence experienced ‘the ineffable and the inexplicable’.”In such a harmonious state, it’s possible to hear what gets drowned out in the routine hurly-burly of modern life.

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“There is one certainty, however. The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to this, it is that there is no pattern.” Robert Safian, Fast Company

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