#Bain toolbox for powerpoint series

“Project management is … The art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck. Tony Morgan, Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals Ways, and at times, determined by business drivers, not by their IT systems.” “To succeed, or even just to survive, businesses need to be able to change in The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else’s expense.”īruce Henderson, Founder, Boston Consulting Group Otherwise you would have gradually lost customers faster than you gained them. If you are in business and self-supporting you already have some kind of competitive advantage no matter how small or subtle. The differences between you and your competitors are the basis of your advantage. Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you. For any company the search is an iterative process that begins with a recognition of where you are and what you have now. “A deliberate search for a plan of action that will develop a business’s competitive advantage and compound it. What’s difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly” I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” “You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it.” “If it is not documented, it doesn’t exist … As long information is retained in someone’s head, it is vulnerable to loss.” “The project manager must be able to develop a fully integrated information and control system to plan, instruct, monitor and control large amounts of data, quickly and accurately to facilitate the problem-solving and decision- making process. “Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.” “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. “The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers, fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.” “The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation. “The only muscle that you’ve got is in between your ears.” “A good plan can help with risk analyses but it will never guarantee the smooth running of the project.” Robert Kriegel, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers Individuals and organizations that are great create change.” “Individuals and organizations that are good react quickly to change. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” “Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”

“Successful organizations make habits of things others don’t like to do, or don’t find time to do.” “To get Game-Changing results, start focusing on Game-Changing thoughts.”

This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” “If the game is designed for you to lose, don’t play that game. Unknown client, from Mangerial consulting skills: a practical guide “What do you do if you’re an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.” “Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.”

“Those who have stopped learning find themselves equipped for a world that no longer exists.” “He who wants to do everything will never do anything.” “My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.” The statistics say we are at around 10.000 words (sorry, don’t have a counter for the quotes), which is a lot of quotes. We made a little project out of searching the coolest quotes for business consultants for you.

Bain toolbox for powerpoint