Ohmae Kenichi Quotes & Sayings

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy. — Kenichi Ohmae

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous. — Kenichi Ohmae

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

Live without meaning is not Life,it is Death.It is like being in the graveyard except that you still have breath.-RVM — R.v.m.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae

If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus. — Dave Jacobs

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back. — Joel Osteen

You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are. This is the Law of One. — RA

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

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State — Kenichi Ohmae

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

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature. — Kenichi Ohmae

Learning is a consequence of thinking. — David Perkins

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

Christmas was almost four months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running. — Joe Hill

People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. — Frank Herbert

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

I know. For all the planning I was doing to get you to show the people who you are, it turns out you just do it on an impulse. It's so you. — Kiera Cass

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking — Kenichi Ohmae

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

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. — Stephen R. Covey

I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking ... It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about. — Dith Pran