Quotes About Strategy

As a people leader, your job is simple: You are the link between organizational mission-critical objectives and the effort your employees invest in achieving those objectives. And you just have to keep those two pieces working together smoothly.

The sociopath sees all laws and expectations as games to be played.

Practice a poker face and the art of speaking very calmly. You have a significant advantage in this strategy also, because the sociopath's brain processes emotional cues far less spontaneously than does the normal brain. The sociopath wants a large, unmistakable reaction. Do not give it to him.

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

Pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy.

And it wasn't like the company was afraid of GrayCris, but they had to teach them a lesson. (The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)

I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

so the plan had been to get into the hostile ship through its lock and then run around getting shot and murdering my way through whoever was aboard until I could get control. (I hadn't used those exact words during the planning process with Indah and Aylen, but we all knew what we were talking about.)

I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.

Nobody was touching my humans. To make sure of that I had to kill these two rogue Units. I could have pulled out at this point, sabotaged the hoppers, and got my humans out of there, leaving the rogue Units stuck on the other side of an ocean; that would have been the smart thing to do.

But the fact remained that a tense situation just made McKay think faster. You could probably phrase it as an equation, where the increasing awfulness of whatever tight spot they were in was directly proportional to the speed of McKay's ability to think a way out of it.

That's how SecUnits are taught to fight: throw your body at the target and kill the shit out of it

That plan was easier plus 100 percent less murdery. And I liked it better.

It wasn't a terrible plan. It probably wasn't even in the top ten of terrible plans.

Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare. (There had been a whole episode about it on Sanctuary Moon.)

They had passed a lift junction, but it wasn't big enough for all of them at once and Wilken sensibly refused to split the group.

know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run

The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast.

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Once you are able to observe each phase, along with each strategy for each phase being played out, you only have to wait for the profit release phase and then join it.

Modern conflict is as much about conditioning public opinion as any other strategy in the war against terror.

Indian Corps and the 4th Corps will push through the barrage of fire regardless of loss, using reserves if required.

a person generally stands to benefit more from appearing dumber than he is rather than smarter.