Book "Strategy beyond the hockey stick"

• In strategy presentations, it seems that everyone is a winner. All the time.
• The strategy process is a ritual dance before you get to what really matters: The annual budget
• Good performance is attributed to superior management, and bad performance is blamed on market conditions
• Ed Catmull at Pixar was very deliberate about how to allow for noble failures. He labeled some projects as being "experimental", not aimed at theatrical release, to encourage people to try riskier ideas. He also funded some ideas considered to be "unlikely".