11 Quotes by Kenichi Ohmae

Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking.

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

The strategist’s method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power.

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.