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

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.

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

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.