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"Where does strategy live in a company? Too often, a company strategy sits on a shelf, gathering dust."

"A system cannot understand itself."

"Knowledge crosses borders without a visa."

"If you cannot argue with your boss he is not worth working for."

"While losing control is one of the biggest fears in management, having control is one of the biggest illusions. "

"Trust is free, control is not."

"Performance can be enabled, but not managed. "

"Many seem to have forgotten that the I in KPI stands for “indicator”."

"The matrix organisation is sometimes criticised for being ineffective. I don’t fully appreciate the problem. Many of us actually grew up in one being raised by two parents."

"Eine lange Gewohnheit, eine Sache nicht für falsch zu halten, verleiht ihr oberflächlich den Anschein, richtig zu sein, und löst zunächst einen gewaltigen Aufschrei zur Verteidigung der Sitte aus. Aber der Tumult legt sich bald. Die Zeit bekehrt mehr als die Vernunft."

"When the variety or complexity of the environment exceeds the capacity of a system (natural or artificial) the environment will dominate and ultimately destroy that system."

"Systemische Krisen erfordern systemische Antworten."

"Wenn du auf nichts zielst, triffst du nichts."

"Strategies don’t live in thick binders – that’s where they go to die."

"Today’s problems come from yesterday’s ‘solutions.’"

"The map is not the territory."

"Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

"What we do always speaks louder than what we say."

"Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted."

"Money motivates neither the best people nor the best in people."

"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one."

"Certainty is not a property of the universe. It is one of these constructs of the human mind which simply does not exist."

"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed on it for control purposes."

"There can be no true agile transformation without beyond budgeting."

"Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss. But that we aim too low and hit."

"More fiction has been written in Excel than in Word."

"Most corporate planning is like a ritual raindance. It has no effect on the weather, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, much of the advice and instruction is directed to improving the dancing, not the weather"

"Most of what we call management is about making it difficult for people to do their job."

"It doesn’t help having Theory Y leadership visions if there are Theory X management processes. The result is poisonous gaps between what is preached and what is practiced sadly seen in so many organisations. "

"The gap between what we expect as free citizens and what we accept as employees is part of the problem"

"Big projects that deliver as promised are rare. Average practice is a disaster, best practice an outlier."

"Projects don’t go wrong, they start wrong."

"A good plan maximises experience or experimentation. A great plan is one that does both. "

"When small can scale up and become huge fast, small experiments have huge potential."

"Planning is relatively cheap and safe. Delivery is expensive and dangerous. "

"Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved."

"Progress in planning is progress on the project."

"Good planning explores, imagines, analyses, tests and iterates. That takes time. Thus slow is a consequence of doing planning right. Not a cause."

"Planning requires thinking. And creative, critical and careful thinking is slow."

"Challenges ignored during planning will eventually boomerang back as delays and cost overruns. "

"Repetitio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of learning."

"Performance is the joint outcome of capability and clever design."

"Egal, wie mächtig AI wird, es werden immer Menschen dein Produkt kaufen. Und die haben Hirne. Und du musst wissen, wie diese Hirne funktionieren."

"Jetzt wird es mal Zeit, zu sagen “Wollen wir das oder wollen wir das nicht?” Und wenn wir das wollen, dann machen wir es doch endlich mal richtig."

"Im digitalen Zeitalter geht Leadership über die Fähigkeit hinaus, Technologie zu nutzen. Es geht darum, Menschlichkeit zu bewahren."

"Wenn wir also Systeme haben wollen, die intelligent sind, brauchen wir im Prinzip Vernetzung, Erregung und Bewertung."

"Strategy is about making specific choices to win in the marketplace."

"If everything is a priority, nothing is."

"Shared documents aren’t shared understanding."

"The best estimates come from developers who really understand what they are estimating."