The Goal Is Not To Speculate On

We Like To Believe We Can Break Strategy Down To Five Forces Or Seven Ss. But You Can't. Strategy Is Extraordinarily Emotional And Demanding.

There's A Simple, But Oft-neglected Lesson Here: To Sustain Success, You Have To Be Willing To Abandon Things That Are No Longer Successful.

Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

For Every Person Who Can Imagine A Possibility There Are Tens Of Thousands Who Are Stuck In The Greased Grooves Of History.

An Uplifting Sense Of Purpose Is More Than An Impetus For Individual Accomplishment, It Is Also A Necessary Insurance Policy Against Expediency And Impropriety.