Quotes About Strategy

When you have some distance from the incident, a next step might be to pitch your idea again down the road to your boss or to another manager. Brainstorm with a trusted colleague on how you might go about doing that. After you process the upset, move on.

Breaking your stretch goal into a series of smaller, doable actions may help. What steps will you need to take to get to your goal? If your goal is a promotion, how can you get more visibility with power players? Which project can you put your hand up for that will showcase your skills and commitment? What else can you do to show that you are ready to advance? How can you attract a sponsor?

No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.

The greatest deed in war is the speediest end of that war, and every means to that end must remain open.

loss aversion creates the behavior commonly known as "playing not to lose," instead of playing to win. How

Every company that intends to grow, should directly address the barriers to scaling.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers as any guide for business, all they know is money.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited. And all of this can always be done.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.