Top 53 Max Mckeown Quotes
#3. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
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#4. Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.
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#5. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
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#6. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
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#7. Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful ...
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#9. Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.
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#10. If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
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#11. If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.
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#12. 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.
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#13. For most people, it is better to lean towards action rather than inaction.
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#14. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
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#15. You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
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#16. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
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#17. Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
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#18. The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.
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#19. The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
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#20. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
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#21. Change is inevitable, progress is not.
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#22. There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
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#23. Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.
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#25. Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
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#26. You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.
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#27. Strategists who don't take time to think are just planners.
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#28. 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.
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#29. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
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#30. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
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#31. Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.
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#32. Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.
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#33. The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
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#34. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
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#35. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
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#36. At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
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#37. Nowists are more likely to experience joy because they embrace the uncertainty of existence. They are switched on by the uncertain stuff of human life and come alive when faced with life at its most uncontrollable.
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#38. Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.
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#39. Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
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#40. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
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#41. Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.
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#42. Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
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#43. Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem ...
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#44. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
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#45. The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
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#46. Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
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#47. What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
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#48. Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.
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#49. Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
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#50. Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.
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#51. Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash 'for fun'. Even today, Facebook believe that 'done is better than perfect'.
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#52. Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.
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#53. All we've got is Now. Life, composed of a billion moments, from our first to our last thoughts.
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