Kenichi Ohmae Quotes

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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.

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• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Life, Change, Men

  Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”

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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Challenges, Assumption, Prevailing

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Thinking, Analysis, Starting

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Needs

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Would Be, Needs, Strategy

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• 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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Brain, Different, Analysis

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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Purpose, Gains, Planning

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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Nwo, Order, Creepy

  Kenichi Ohmae (1997). “El fin del estado-nación: el ascenso de las economías regionales”, p.258, Andres Bello

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• Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Team, Leader, Use

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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Failing, Strategy, Premature

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Japan, Organization, People

  "The Myth and Reality of the Japanese Corporation". Chief Executive Magazine, Summer 1981.

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• What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Economy, Function, Left

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