“Innovation is the first reduction to practice of an idea in a culture.”
James Brian Quinn from Intelligent Enterprise
“A strategy is a pattern or plan that integrates an organization’s major goals, polices, and action sequences into a cohesive whole. A well-formulated strategy helps to marshal and allocate an organization’s resources into a unique and viable posture based on its relative internal competences and shortcomings, anticipated changes in the environment and contingent moves by intelligent opponents.”
James Brian Quinn in Strategies for Change
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter F. Drucker
“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”
William Durant
These are a few of my favorite quotes. Taken together, they suggest to me a harmony of perspectives that I find useful to maintain when I am making plans.
