Bruce Henderson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
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Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
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The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
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The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
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Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
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Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.
-- Bruce Henderson
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I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
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Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
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The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.
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Attack! Always Attack!
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.
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