Bruce Henderson

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Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Excellence
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Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Leadership
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The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Successful
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All strategy depends on competition.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Competition
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The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Advantage
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Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Typical
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Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.
- Bruce Henderson
Collection: Hands