Max McKeown quote: "The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy."

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what ...
MAX MCKEOWN

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals ...
MAX MCKEOWN

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisat...
MAX MCKEOWN

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and...
MAX MCKEOWN

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
MAX MCKEOWN

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
MAX MCKEOWN

Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten general...
MAX MCKEOWN

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problem...
MAX MCKEOWN

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website ...
MAX MCKEOWN

Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
MAX MCKEOWN

Strategy is about shaping the future.
MAX MCKEOWN

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are m...
MAX MCKEOWN

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work...
MAX MCKEOWN

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

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
MAX MCKEOWN

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improv...
MAX MCKEOWN

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.
MAX MCKEOWN

Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it...
MAX MCKEOWN

The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity ...
MAX MCKEOWN

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose...
MAX MCKEOWN

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

It was a tale of two halves. In the first half, we looked like a CYO team that hadn't practiced. In ...
JOE MCKEOWN

From what we know at this point, there's no evidence that the cooling tower was not properly maintai...
DAVID MCKEOWN

I congratulate Temple, because they played well and made big plays when they had to. That was really...
JOE MCKEOWN

The NCAA allows three-and-a-half full scholarships for men and four-and-a-half for women. Ours are o...
GEORGE MCKEOWN

Some people are fragile enough that they may still succumb to this.
DAVID MCKEOWN

It's definitely something that puts our program on the map. Especially getting a win outside of the ...
KEVIN MCKEOWN

The outbreak is confined to residents and staff and people closely associated with this one facility...
DAVID MCKEOWN

That aerosol, including the bacteria, could get sucked into a building's air conditioning system or ...
DAVID MCKEOWN

These deaths are an unfortunate reminder that West Nile virus can be a serious health threat, althou...
DAVID MCKEOWN

These athletes are determined. And they play to win. Our soccer team can win this thing. They show a...
DAVID MCKEOWN

He has been excellent since the start of the season and bailed us out here.
DES MCKEOWN

We will have to put our thinking cap on about our line up.
DES MCKEOWN

I am happy with the three points but I was disappointed with our second-half performance. It was a b...
DES MCKEOWN

Although the condition of some ill residents has worsened and unfortunately four more have died, oth...
DAVID MCKEOWN

There have been, unfortunately, two additional deaths, both among residents.
DAVID MCKEOWN

What we see now is the outbreak winding down to some extent. There have been fewer new cases per day...
DAVID MCKEOWN

This is not SARS,
DAVID MCKEOWN

I would not be surprised if there were additional deaths,
DAVID MCKEOWN

This is the latest phase in the city's campaign to encourage natural lawn and garden care practices....
DAVID MCKEOWN

This is the latest phase in the city's campaign to encourage natural lawn and garden care practices,
DAVID MCKEOWN

The message is loud and clear. West Nile virus has arrived in Toronto and it's important to take pre...
DAVID MCKEOWN

That was very disappointing to me, the turnout. That's what did it, I believe.
FRANK MCKEOWN

The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss various items which suggest that there is absol...
FRANK MCKEOWN

What interim means at this time I really don't know, but I hope it'll be for at least another year a...
GEORGE MCKEOWN

The main thing is that Coach McCauley and I want to get the community of Pine Bluff behind this prog...
GEORGE MCKEOWN

Any time your peers pick you for that kind of honor, it's hard to find words to describe what it mea...
GEORGE MCKEOWN

I try to write every day, find a regular time to do it and it's gotten easier as I've gotten older. ...
ERIN MCKEOWN

I think it's more about an independent songwriter scene. You form a family that finds each other whe...
ERIN MCKEOWN

We've known each other seven or eight years. We've always liked each other's music and liked each ot...
ERIN MCKEOWN

Schools were starting earlier and earlier. I talked with parents, teachers and principals from all o...
LARRY MCKEOWN

Schools were starting earlier and earlier.
LARRY MCKEOWN

This is a good day for families in South Carolina.
LARRY MCKEOWN

We were due for a game offensively. It's no secret we've struggled to score the last couple weeks. I...
JOE MCKEOWN

I thought our kids did a great job of handling that. We were still able to score even when they got ...
JOE MCKEOWN

They were a pretty good No. 2 seed. I'll say that much.
JOE MCKEOWN

They made plays, they made shots, they defended well when they had to.
JOE MCKEOWN

We went out and played everybody we could. I think we're in pretty good shape. Now, it's a matter of...
JOE MCKEOWN

She's a big-time player. I just have to keep convincing her of that.
JOE MCKEOWN

We just wanted to send a message that we were not going to play like we did last Sunday. That wasn't...
JOE MCKEOWN

Our defensive effort was good from the opening tip and that's something we've focused on in practice...
JOE MCKEOWN

That's why I'm still here.
JOE MCKEOWN

People all over the world could listen. That's exciting to me.
MATT MCKEOWN

Be a doer, not a stewer.
MAX LUCADO

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo...
MAX EASTMAN

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
MAX EUWE

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
MAX CANNON

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you k...
MAX LUCADO

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
MAX CANNON

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different fr...
MAX HEINDEL

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty an...
MAX SCHNEIDER

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated...
MAX WEINBERG

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w...
MAX WEBER

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
MAX STIRNER

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of ...
MAX WEBER

I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
MAX STIRNER

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
MAX BEERBOHM

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
MAX KAUFFMAN

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources an...
MAX BILL

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel agai...
MAX PERCY

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained th...
MAX HEINDEL

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport ...
MAX WINKLER

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
MAX CANNON

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right ...
MAX EHRMANN

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He ex...
MAX FRISCH

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
MAX FRISCH

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
MAX STIRNER

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as...
MAX EHRMANN

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps...
MAX WEBER

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we c...
MAX LERNER

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is ri...
MAX LUCADO

I Choose Love...
No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love....
MAX LUCADO

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...
MAX LUCADO

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAX LUCADO

He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a b...
MAX BARRY

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci...
MAX LERNER

Music is the soul of language.
MAX HEINDEL

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by...
MAX WEBER

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off towa...
MAX EASTMAN

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quit...
MAX WEBER

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
MAX EASTMAN

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
MAX MULLER

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
MAX SCHMELLING

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meanin...
MAX FRISCH

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
MAX EASTMAN

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every tim...
MAX MCGEE

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
MAX JACOB

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
MAX BEERBOHM

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
MAX LERNER

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...
MAX LERNER

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
MAX BEERBOHM

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l...
MAX BEERBOHM

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
MAX BEERBOHM

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
MAX BEERBOHM

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
MAX BEERBOHM

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
MAX ASNAS

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
MAX BEERBOHM

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial...
MAX BEERBOHM

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than m...
MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
MAX HASTINGS

If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can a...
MAX GUNTHER

How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
MAX EASTMAN

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win a...
MAX GUNTHER

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
MAX BEERBOHM

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
MAX LUCADE

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease...
MAX LERNER

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
MAX BEERBOHM

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost ai...
MAX BORN

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
MAX BEERBOHM

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that ...
MAX EASTMAN

Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND

The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Ke...
MAX CLELAND

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all...
MAX BORN

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meani...
MAX FRISCH

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of...
MAX NORDAU

Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why...
TUCKER MAX

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour ou...
MAX LUCADO

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good st...
MAX AZRIA

The '60s were an amazing time.
PETER MAX

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...
MAX WEBER

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused ...
MAX GREENFIELD

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which i...
MAX BURNS

I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Camp...
MAX SCHNEIDER

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alon...
MAX BILL

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very he...
MAX IRONS

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
MAX SCHMELING

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
MAX EASTMAN

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...
MAX PLANCK

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
MAX BEERBOHM

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...
MAX WEBER

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it ha...
MAX HEINDEL

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for c...
MAX CARVER

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...
MAX LUCADO

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a pe...
TUCKER MAX

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship...
TUCKER MAX

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
TUCKER MAX

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
TUCKER MAX

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress wome...
TUCKER MAX

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like ...
TUCKER MAX

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.
TUCKER MAX

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you...
TUCKER MAX

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I gua...
TUCKER MAX

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You...
TUCKER MAX

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on t...
TUCKER MAX

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your drea...
TUCKER MAX

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
TUCKER MAX

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around...
TUCKER MAX

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
TUCKER MAX

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
TUCKER MAX

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essentia...
TUCKER MAX

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that...
TUCKER MAX

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.
TUCKER MAX

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
TUCKER MAX

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my exp...
TUCKER MAX

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you a...
TUCKER MAX

The haters always scream the loudest.
TUCKER MAX

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

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