Quotes About Strategy

The truth is, the best won-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.

It is a common architectural strategy to build courtrooms without windows, to enhance the effect of a chamber isolated from the everyday world, a theater for the great and timeless work of the law.

We'll need more guns." "And some explosives." "And Advil." "Those bastards won't know what hit them once we get the Advil.

He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

Tajna osvajanja žena leži u prora?unatom ignoriranju.

But Hall was not stopping there. The next stage was for him and Drake to send false reports back, using the names of spies who had actually been arrested – a technique that was perfected in the Second World War – to give the impression that they had uncovered military preparations to invade the German coast in Schleswig-Holstein. The purpose was to force the enemy fleet out to defend their coast.

To make matters worse, the British sighted French tanks, thought they were German and attacked them. The German commander charged with the task of resisting was a man who would soon be the most famous German general of them all, then known as Major-General Erwin Rommel. By 6pm, Rommel had prevailed, the attack was over and the remaining British tanks – and most of the commanders had been killed – were in retreat

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Blue and Gray veterans led the way in focusing public attention on the minute details of each battle, a move that tended to distract attention from larger questions of meaning. Few if any other wars have created among the public such a strange fascination with the concrete details of military tactics and strategy, and thus pride in knowing where and when General Daniel Sickles lost his leg at Gettysburg, but not in knowing when slaves were freed in the District of Columbia.

As you grow in your management responsibilities, one of the biggest areas of focus will be talent. Adopting an approach where you are always recruiting is the most powerful way to build a team of "A" players in the shortest time possible.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

The best way to avoid these tactics from being used by you or against you is by befriending the other party before the negotiations start. Good relationships and rapport in a neutral environment may prove productive later at the negotiating table. Overall,

Robert de Balsac, ended a study on warfare with the remark that "most important of all, success in war depends on having enough money to provide whatever the enterprise needs.

A device that sits somewhere between the categories of "possible general method" and "for emergency use only / you're going to die method" is the Reverso.

I have always found the word 'Europe' in the mouths of those politicians who wanted from other powers something they did not dare to demand in their own name. Otto von Bismarck We

Accounting is your primary information system for making decisions, so if that information is bad, your decisions will be bad too.

designate two or three days each month as "X" days, during which they wouldn't schedule any meetings. I'd spend some of those days alone thinking about our businesses.

We had to scrub our books and practices so that they reflected the reality of our underlying businesses. We also had to shake our executives out of their blinding fixation on quarterly results. Only then could we make planning decisions that supported long-term growth.

As I like to say, it's important to be right at the end of a meeting, not at the beginning.

Three Questions to Ask of Each Business in Your Portfolio 1.?Is it in a good industry? 2.?Does it occupy a great position in that industry? 3.?Does it deliver a strong ROI?

As the decision-maker in your organization, you must become intimately engaged with leadership development, hiring, and firing.

We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.