Organizations Are Communities Of Human Beings, Not

Strategy Making Needs To Function Beyond The Boxes To Encourage The Informal Learning That Produces New Perspectives And New Combinations... Once Managers Understand This, They Can Avoid Other Costly Misadventures Caused By Applying Formal Techniques, Without Judgement And Intuition, To Problem Solving.

I Describe Management As Arts, Crafts And Science. It Is A Practice That Draws On Arts, Craft And Science And There Is A Lot Of Craft - Meaning Experience - There Is A Certain Amount Of Craft Meaning Insight, Creativity And Vision, And There Is The Use Of Science, Technique Or Analysis.

The Real Challenge In Crafting Strategy Lies In Detecting Subtle Discontinuities That May Undermine A Business In The Future. And For That There Is No Technique, No Program, Just A Sharp Mind In Touch With The Situation.

Most Of The Time, Strategies Should Not Be Formulating Strategy At All; They Should Be Getting On With Implementing Strategies They Already Have.

No Generalizing Beyond The Data, No Theory. No Theory, No Insight. And If No Insight, Why Do Research.