Max McKeown
Max McKeown
Max McKeownis an English writer, consultant, and researcher specialising in innovation strategy, leadership and culture. He has written six influential books and conducts research with Warwick Business School. He is a fellow of the RSA. He served on the Advisory Board for the Rollins Center for eBusiness. He earned his Masters in Business Administration and PhD from the Warwick Business School under the supervision of Professor David Wilson and Professor Sotirios Paroutis, who was in turn supervised by Andrew Pettigrew...
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successful adaptation
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
believe choices overcoming
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
thought-provoking provoking following
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
should-have together breakfast
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
real heart strategy
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
behind constant delivering fallen few forgot founder great ideas lower markets perfect perfectly prices products profitable ways within work
The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.
powerful together-again imagination
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.
thinking take-time time-to-think
Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.
among businesses immense large people
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
moving effort doing-nothing
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.