Quotes About Strategy

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important.

Una de sus máximas clave relativas a la inversión era apostar por la gente más que por la idea.

Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort.

they have to try to figure out where their opponent's pieces are. "The wildest

Después de varias sugerencias desangeladas (una de ellas era Electronic Solid State Computer Technology Corp.), terminaron decidiéndose por Integrated Electronics Corp. Tampoco es que fuera un nombre muy apasionante, pero tenía la ventaja de poder abreviarlo como Intel.

McCollum believed in military

And you can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers.

Deep Blue ganó aquel torneo de ajedrez por la fuerza bruta, ya que era capaz de evaluar 200 millones de posiciones por segundo y compararlas con 700.000 jugadas

Jobs did indeed make the Macintosh into a low-cost competitor to the Lisa, one with incompatible software. Making matters worse was that neither machine was compatible with the Apple II. With no one in overall charge at Apple, there was no chance of keeping Jobs in harness.

His argument was that a great engineer would be remembered only if he teamed with a great marketer, and this required him to commit his designs to the partnership.

To succeed at any ambitious project, you had to assess all of the intricate ramifications of an action, weigh probabilities, share information, organize people, and more.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind. iTunes

Some leaders push innovations by being good at the big picture. Others do so by mastering details. Jobs did both, relentlessly.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do," he said. "That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

As a master of the relationship between power and diplomacy, Franklin knew that it would be impossible to win at the negotiating table what was unwinnable on the battlefield.

A democracy," Kennan wrote in a note to himself, "is severely restricted in its use of armed forces as a weapon of peacetime foreign policy.

Don't fight over divvying up the proceeds until you finish robbing the stagecoach.

reliable rule of diplomacy that you cannot win at the bargaining table something that you would be unable to win on the ground.

al lograr que Apple se centrara en fabricar únicamente cuatro modelos de ordenadores, Jobs salvó la empresa. «Decidir lo que no hay que hacer es tan importante como decidir lo que hay que hacer

Kissinger once said of Israel's Moshe Dayan that he was "a brilliant manipulator of people and yet emotionally dependent on them.

one is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.

Eisenhower, in short, had perfected the art of playing against his assigned role, first as a nonmilitary general and later as a nonpolitical president. This deliberately cultivated style had proved enormously successful in war. How would it work in the White House?