"Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale."

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Source : "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

C. K. Prahalad

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“I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.”
“I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.”
“Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.”
“The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.”
“If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.”

Source : Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.6, Rowman & Littlefield
“We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.”
“I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.”
“To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.”

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