Kenichi Ohmae famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Vision #Helping #Rowing
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Life #Change #Men
The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Brain #Different #Analysis
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Challenges #Assumption #Prevailing
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Thinking #Analysis #Starting
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Would Be #Needs #Purpose
Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Team #Leader #Use
New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Order #Creepy #World
Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Would Be #Needs #Strategy
More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Failing #Strategy #Premature
What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Economy #Function #Left
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Japan #Organization #People

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