Strategic Evolution Quotes

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

I need to keep moving my game forward, because Test batsmen will keep moving their games forward.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

It was Thomas Tuchel's first season as coach and I played centrally always. The whole team had a great year, one that I enjoyed a lot. Our style has changed a bit, from trying to score within five seconds to a more calm and in some regard more educated style of play. We try to find the right moment - and then we explode.

I think every team needs change every year.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

I'm trying to evolve with how football is going.

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.