Although we try to persuade ourselves that the business world is in daylight, in reality we are driving in the dark, seeing no further than our headlights. To navigate we read the signs and follow the markings as they appear briefly before us. To navigate well, we also need imagination, maps, and a radio tuned to the right station. We may not be able to see what lies beyond the edge of our lights, but it is important that we are curious about it - Patrick Lambe
A firm with an extraordinary ambition but an under-developed capacity for resource leverage will be dismissed as a dreamer - Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad
A firm is inherently fragile if its value-added emanates more from conceptual as distinct from physical assets...trust and reputation can vanish overnight, a factory cannot - Alan Greenspan (quoted in Fortune, p44, 27/05/2002)
A camel is a horse invented by a committee. - Alec Issigonis (1906-88) British engineer. Quoted in Guardian (London) (January 14, 2001)
97% of what matters in business can't be counted - J.Edwards Deming (Total Quality guru)
Volunteering across boundaries is increasing, as organisations start to connect the dots across their leadership development, corporate social responsibility, and corporate strategy efforts.
A new website invites the public to share their opinions on everything from business to politics to world events.
Is an erosion of wider societal values in the business world one of the primary reasons of the current economic crisis?