Quotes by Max McKeown

About Max McKeown:

Max McKeown is an English writer, consultant, and researcher specialising in innovation strategy, leadership and culture. He has written six influential books and conducts research with Warwick Business School (Young, 2008). He is a fellow of the RSA. He served on the Advisory Board for the Rollins Center for eBusiness. He earned his Masters in Business Administration and PhD from the Warwick Business School under the supervision of Professor David Wilson and Professor Sotirios Paroutis, who was in turn supervised by Andrew Pettigrew.
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With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

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The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

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A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

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Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

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Change is inevitable, progress is not.

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Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

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Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

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All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

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There are no perfect leaders.

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Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

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There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

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You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

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At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to ...

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Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is ...

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Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

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If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

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Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

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Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

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The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be p...

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All good ideas recognise opportunities and meet needs. Some variations on a specific idea can be protected legally in some countries for a few years, but no idea can be protected for long, and big ideas can rarely be protected at all. And since the i...

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Author Bio

  • NameMax McKeown
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • Born1969
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter