Stephen Covey
Principles should not be confused with values. Principles describe how things are and how they work, whereas values state where we aim to go. If principles are the territory, then values are maps. Only when we value correct principles, do we have “a knowledge of things as they are.” Practices are helpful in formalizing how to do things, but whereas “practices are situationally specific, principles … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Character, Values
Henry Mintzberg
Effective strategists are not people who abstract themselves from the daily detail, but who immerse themselves in it while being able to abstract the relevant messages from it.
Content: Quotation | Source: ManyWorlds | Subject: Strategy
Henry Mintzberg
Because analysis is not synthesis, strategic planning has never been strategy making… No amount of elaboration will ever enable formal procedures to forecast discontinuities, to inform detached managers, to create novel strategies. Thus planning, rather than providing new strategies, could not proceed without their prior existence.
Content: Quotation | Source: ManyWorlds | Subject: Strategy