Quotes About Strategy

The task before you is not to be a single charismatic individual with vision. The task is to build an organization with vision. Individuals die; great companies can live for centuries.

What's the role of luck? Our research showed that the great companies were not generally luckier than the comparisons—they didn't get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better timing of luck. Instead, they got a higher return on luck, making more of their luck than others.

One powerful method for getting at purpose is the five whys. Start with the descriptive statement We make X products or We deliver X services, and then ask, Why is that important? five times. After a few whys, you'll find that you're getting down to the fundamental purpose of the organization. We

Effective leaders focus their efforts, keeping the number of priorities to a minimum and remaining resolutely fixed on them. You can't do everything; nor can a company on the path to greatness.

If you must have more than one priority, then keep it to a maximum of three—any more than three priorities is an admission that you don't really have any priorities.

Catastrophic bad luck can kill a potentially great company, but good luck cannot make a company great. Luck doesn't build great companies that last; people do.

Strategy per se did not separate the good-to-great companies from the comparison companies. Both sets had strategies, and there is no evidence that the good-to-great companies spent more time on strategic planning than the comparison companies.

good-to-great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing.

First Who . . . Then What. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats—and then they figured out where to drive it. The old adage "People are your most important asset" turns out to be wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are.

Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In

Miller's comment leads to a very important point: Strategy is impossible without first setting a vision.

Most companies (we believe that most organizations do indeed lack clarity of vision) let crises, firefights, and tactical decisions drive the company. We refer to this as "tactics-driving strategy." Vision should drive strategy and strategy, in turn, should drive tactics, not the other way around.

The executives who ignited the transformations from good to great did not first figure out where to drive the bus and then get people to take it there. No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it.

I racket di protezione, abituali e persistenti, sono una strategia a lungo periodo rispetto al saccheggio occasionale e quindi dipendono da un ambiente politico e militare ragionevolmente stabile. E sono difficilmente distinguibili dallo stesso stato arcaico che, come loro, si appropria del surplus sostenibile di comunità sedentarie e respinge attacchi esterni per proteggere la sua base.

Sometimes it's wiser to give a quarry extra line -- that's how to catch a fish, neh?

In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.

A wise man prepares for treachery.

Yabu his sword." "I think Lord Toranaga only wants Izu strong and a vassal state. Not as an ally. He doesn't want allies any more than the Taik? did. Yabu thinks he's an ally. I think Toranaga detests allies. Our clan will prosper as Toranaga vassals. Or as Ishido

Do I want to bed her? Sure. So mount a campaign, maneuver her into bed without commitments. Don't play the game of life according to female rules, all's fair in war and war. What's love anyway? It's like Casey said, sex's only a part of it.

It is simple to catch a man, all you need to know is the right bait.

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

Adam ruled over vÅ¡emi.Byl Král.Až the day he will be king opustila.Pak came forth and became food for the silnÄ›jÅ¡í.A strongest was always king , not only due to its strength, but thanks to his smarts , luck and strength together. among rats.

So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat.

Calculating psychopaths don't shit where they eat.