Quotes About Strategy

Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

La docilidad no es lo mismo que la amabilidad. S personalidad líquida iba tanteando el terreno, y se introducía sigilosamente por los puntos más vulnerables de los demás hasta encontrar un lugar apropiado en el que instalarse y sacar de él el máximo provecho.

If you try to engineer all of the risk out of a trade, it will only surface somewhere else when it is least welcome.

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?2

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

In the Next Society's corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.

Above all, we know that an entrepreneurial strategy has more chance of success the more it starts out with the users – their utilities, their values, their realities. An innovation is a change in market or society. It produces a greater yield for the user, greater wealth-producing capacity for society, higher value or greater satisfaction. The test of an innovation is always what it does for the user. Hence, entrepreneurship always needs to be market-focused, indeed, market-driven.

Any existing organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, goes down fast if it does not innovate. Conversely, any new organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, collapses if it does not manage. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company's assumptions, and they must challenge a company's current outlook. One

What is our mission? Who is our customer? What does the customer value? What are our results? and What is our plan?

Peter F. Drucker

Managements must look at every unexpected success with the questions: (1) What would it mean to us if we exploited it? (2) Where could it lead us? (3) What would we have to do to convert it into an opportunity? And (4) How do we go about it? This means, first, that managements need to set aside specific time in which to discuss unexpected successes; and second, that someone should always be designated to analyse an unexpected success and to think through how it could be exploited.

The secret is that effective executives make the strengths of the boss productive.

Management by drive, like management by 'bellows and meat ax,' is a sure sign of confusion. It is an admission of incompetence. It is a sign that management does not know how to plan. But, above all, it is a sign that the company does not know what to expect of its managers – that, not knowing how to direct them, it misdirects them.

Abandon what is about to be obsolete, develop a system to exploit your successes, and develop a systematic approach to innovation.