Quotes About Strategy

thought itself is best understood as planning; even higher forms of thought, such as philosophy, the epitome of disembodied speculation, proceed, they argue, by hijacking algorithms originally developed to help us plan movements.

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His general shotmaking ability is optimum. He will try anything. "Look at the way he hit that ball, gave it the casual play," Graebner says to himself. "Instead of trying a silly shot and missing it, he tries a silly shot and makes it." If Ashe wins the next point, he will have broken Graebner, and the match will be, in effect, even.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.