“How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?”
“if you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself”
“When people in the company start asking questions like @But how can we say "X" when we do "Y"? more than anything else this is a tip-off that a strategic inflection point may very well be in the making”
“You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one”
“Compaqs, Dells and Novells each of which emerged from practically nothing to become major corporations. What's the common among these companies is that they all instinctively followed the rules for success in a horizontal industry.”
“a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end”
“In Technology, whatever can be done will be done”