Strategy Is, Above All Else, The Search

There Are As Many Foolhardy Ways To Grow As There Are To Downsize.

**new Business Concepts Are Always, Always The Product Of Lucky Foresight.** That's Right - The Essential Insight Doesn't Come Out Of Any Dirigiste Planning Process; It Comes Form Some Cocktail Of Happenstance, Desire, Curiosity, Ambition And Need. But At The End Of The Day, There Has To Be A Degree Of Foresight -- A Sense Of Where New Riches Lie. So Radical Innovation Is Always One Part Fortuity And One Part Clearheaded Vision. [first-line Bold By Author] [2002] P.23

Influence Is Like Water. Always Flowing Somewhere.

There's A Simple, But Oft-neglected Lesson Here: To Sustain Success, You Have To Be Willing To Abandon Things That Are No Longer Successful.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.