The Lords of Strategy Quotes

“Nearly all companies I have known,” he would say in 1985, “have a number of businesses they should not be in.”
― Walter Kiechel III, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

“as Jack Welch approximated the point more pungently in his 2005 book Winning, “In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”)”
― Walter Kiechel, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World