Quotes about strategy

Strategy is about making choices it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta you are the one who has brought us to this.– Panchali Draupadi

Thinking and planning is one side of life doing is another. A man cannot bedoing all the time.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft!

Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

You can always try another approach even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear then he will be amenable to your will.

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise  for the result is waste of time and   general stagnation.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Move not unless you see an advantage  use not your troops unless there is something to be gained fight not unless the position is critical.

All men can see these tacticsWhereby I masterBut out of which evolve profitsNone can see the character.Strategy without characterIs the slowest route to profitsTactics without strategyIs the noise before loses

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Attack is the secret of defense defense is the planning of an attack.

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

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Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem

Strategic execution always solves problems

They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

I believe that if that vision or dream comes from God, He will also give you the strategy to bring it to pass.

Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

A positive strategy should focus on innovation.

Any change holds an opportunity.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

The eminent strategy had won yesterday,but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26

Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26

The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26

By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)

Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment.If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25

The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside from the prize at the end. She gets a rush from the gaming dynamics and appreciates the beauty of the game. At the end of the day, you play for the love of the game or not at all.

Strategies that did well in competition with other strategies were not, however, those that maximized the returns to agents. Rather, we found a strong inverse relationship between the mean fitness of individuals in populations containing only one strategy, and that strategy's performance in the tournament. This finding illustrates the parasitic effect of strategies that rely heavily on OBSERVE. Strategies using a mixture of social and asocial learning are vulnerable to being outcompeted by those

Someone once told me that, when your operations are not good, you should not talk strategy," says Iyer. "Fair enough. But the opposite is also true. If operations are good, then you must talk strategy.

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25

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Do not confuse good tactics with good luck.

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

If all we’re prepared for is unconventional warfare, suddenly a massed conventional attack becomes an asymmetric advantage.

To discover strategy is to fulfill mandate

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument.

Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.

The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.

Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.

The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.

The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.

Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.

Strategy is about heading North while keeping an eye on the South.

Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.

Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.

Hope is not a strategy

Strategists seek to increase available options by manipulating structure and context, and in this way dictate the terms of conflict. One of the most captivating discussions of manipulating rules and boundaries to further the end of politics is in William Riker’s thought-provoking conception of heresthetics. Riker produces more than a dozen examples of a master strategist’s manipulation of perceptions, agendas, rules, and procedures to assure the strategist’s desired results would ensue. The stra

Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.

A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.

If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a rabbit, and the rabbit gets away, that rabbit will always somehow instinctively run in a circle and return sooner or later past the very spot where he originally was jumped. Well, the old men would just sit and wait in hiding somewhere for the rabbit to come back, then get their shots at him. I got to thinking about it, and finally I thought of a plan. I would separate from them and Big Boy and I