I am reading a book by a great Japanese strategist who is an MIT graduate, Kenichi Ohmae. - “The Mind of The Strategist”

To me it is an interesting reading, something that is a little bit different from the normal material that cover self improvement. This book is a management book - specifically on management strategy.

One of his statement that stood out from the rest is that strategic move in a real sense requires “discontinuity” otherwise it is only an incremental change. When you want to move an organization to a new level - the incremental change will not work. This is where good strategic move is the option.

To me, one of the most well known strategic move is the Nokia case…how Nokia move from a timber related company (I found some one display a picture of Nokia safety boot for logger…) to handphone…and won it from Motorola who was the pioneer of the handphone industry. Still looking..and waiting for any one to write a management book to describe in detail of how this was done in Nokia years ago…do you know any book about this ? If yes please put in the comment.

Another more recent example is Apple move from sole dependency on computer to consumer product - Ipod,..and later IPhone.

I hope you can see the difference between “incremental change” (eg. Intel processors..) vs. a discontinuity based on strategic move.

Now I wonder if the same thing applicable to our life….to do strategic move - discontinue the current pattern how you do things and start to do something else…just as how it has rewarded Nokia and Apple, a discontinuity might also rewarding to your life.

Think about it.