Quotes About Strategy

The CEO's greatest influence on the company isn't her contributions to the product, the strategy, or even getting the company funded. The CEO's greatest contribution to the company is the wizardry required to hire a team that is going to be amazingly effective at executing the company's strategy. Great CEOs hire teams that are far better than they have any right to expect. Put succinctly, a core competency for a CEO is to "date up." This

talking about, just look at the Celtics.

She could not know that he was a master manipulator. She could not know that he had plans for her. And she could not know that as the Duke of Blackheath strode out into the Grand Hall and called for his hat, his gloves, and his horse, his eyes were gleaming with cunning delight.

Plan I—Plying the Enemy with Flowers and Gifts—was not working. Plan II—Bringing Aboard the Enemy's Crew— seemed to be failing miserably. It was time to put Plan III—Enticing the Enemy Out of Port—into action.

His deep voice broke the spell. "So, what do you suggest I do, ladies?" He stared out to sea, knowing very well what he would do. But he wanted to involve these two youngsters, win them over to his side. Draw the enemy in. Drag them over to your camp, until their commander finds herself alone and unsupported . . . vulnerable.

Necesitamos una economía mundial plural en la cual los Estados-nación conserven la suficiente autonomía para elaborar sus propios contratos sociales y desarrollar sus propias estrategias económicas.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

Groups of people are like a massive Rock, Paper, Scissors war.

Some don't like to see this (vaccination rollout) as a race but a race it surely is. What I didn't know was that [NSW] Premier [Gladys] Berejiklian's in a sprint while the rest of us are supposed to do some sort of egg and spoon thing.

The national plan is about all of us moving together. It's also not a national plan for picnics, just quietly

The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us—but we can defeat ourselves.

It all amounted to the old British butcher-and-bolt tactic, done from the air.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril" We failed on both counts. I know I sure did. As generals, we did not know our enemy—never pinned him down, never focused our efforts, and got all too good at making new opponents before we'd handled the old ones.

the military started the campaigns by turning off the personnel system

1.º, los clientes; 2.º, los empleados; 3.º, la comunidad, y 4.º, los accionistas de la compañía.

Building habits of group vulnerability is like building a muscle. It takes time, repetition, and the willingness to feel pain in order to achieve gains. And as with building muscle, the first key is to approach the process with a plan.

Rule number one was to keep all riot gear out of sight:

deliberate bombing of urban populations as the principal way of fighting a war by a major industrial power can be said to have started on February 14, 1942, with a specific British directive

Operations analysts turned to questions of what the mix should be of explosives and different sorts of incendiaries for the most efficient, cost-effective ways to burn German workers and their families alive.

we were working to assure the survival under attack of a capability for retaliatory genocide

For every ton of bombs dropped on England in the nine months of the Blitz, England and the United States, mainly England, eventually dropped a hundred tons of bombs on German cities.

without President Kennedy's knowledge, and, brandishing the might of the United States

York posed the question, how many nuclear weapons are needed to deter an adversary rational enough to be deterred? Concurring with Bundy's judgment—as who would not?—he answered his question, "somewhere in the range of 1, 10, or 100 … closer to 1 than it is to 100." In 1986, the U.S. had 23,317 nuclear warheads and Russia had 40,159, for a total of 63,836 weapons.76

The atom bomb did not start a new era of targeting or strategy or war making in the world. Annihilation of an urban civilian population by fire had already become the American way of war from the air, as it had been the British way since late 1940.