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Kenichi Ohmae

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Japanese business theorist (1943-)

Person · Open Library

Born
1943
Works
29

Top works

  • The Mind Of The Strategist
  • The mind of the strategist
  • The Next Global Stage
  • Borderless World Power and Strategy In The
  • Professional

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Quotes

  • In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
  • Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
  • Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking. Faced with problems, trends, events, or situations that appear to constitute a harmonious whole or come packaged as a whole by common sense of the day, the strategic thinker dissects them into their constituent parts. Then, having discovered the significance of these constituents, he reassembles them in a way calculated to maximize his 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. Corporate strategy, thus, implies an attempt to alter a company's strength relative to that of its competitors in the most efficient way.
  • The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? And to put the same question relentlessly to those responsibles for the current way of doing things until they are sick of it.
  • In practice, the managerial decision to tackle organizational and systems changes is made even more difficult by the way in which problems become visible. Usually a global systems problem first comes into view in the form of local symptoms. Rarely do such problems show up where the real underlying causes are.

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