White Water Rafter
November 19, 2006
“Being strategic today is like being a white-water rafter. You have to react immediately to opportunities or moves by a competitor—or risk being overtaken,” Walter Shill, managing director of the strategic practice at Accenture.
Quoted in: “Two More CEO Ousters Underscore the Need For Better Strategizing,” Carol Hymowitz, In The Lead column, Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2006.
See also comments from Shill in the Robert Malone’s November 15, 2006 Fortune article “Risk Management Is Top Priority.”
