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Understanding the whole system

"Dividing an elephant in half does not produce 2 small elephants"

Laws of unintended consequences

Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline

Attention span

"I have the attention span of a small goldfish on drugs" -Jon Kåre

New Business Models

For new business models don´t listen to your customer, because if they agreed with the new business model they would not be your customers.

"If I listened to my customers they would have asked for faster horses"
Henry Ford

Outside the box thinking

If it´s impossible to think outside of the box, talk to people outside of the box.
Nestlé got a manager outside of the organisation to run Nespresso.

Making assumptions

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups !

Putting an elephant together

A complicated project is like putting together an elephant one guy brings the trunk one guy brings the foot, and then you usually have one guy standing behind taking all the shit !

quoted from M&A class at Vlerick