Quotes About Strategy

Teniendo en cuenta que el equipo directivo no sabe qué hacer con el Big Data, todo el mundo está a la búsqueda del pos-Big Data, y la respuesta son los pequeños datos».

Dünya çap?nda her y?l kabaca 21.000 yeni marka piyasaya ç?k?yor, ancak bunlar?n yüzde 90'? bir y?la kalmadan raflardan kayboluyor.

Seduction, marginalization, diversion, and attack all serve a function.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion abused the independence granted them, those plans were sufficiently flexible to accommodate errors; that is, a large safety margin was left to ensure that mistakes would not develop into catastrophes.

According to Clausewitz, the purpose of studying war was to provide commanders with a sound basis for their thinking and render it unnecessary to reinvent the wheel with every new situation.

The first is extreme flexibility which will enable one to take advantage of fleeting opportunities. Said Sun Tzu, "an army is like water which adapts itself to the configuration of the ground.

Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

All victories have their foundation in careful preparation.

Who was it who once said: 'Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still'? An astute man whoever he was,

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

Specifically, what are you going to do to deal with that matter? What are your action items here? What are your ideas about solving that problem? When will you carry out that plan? Keep the questions you-oriented so that

Today's real competition doesn't come from other companies but from the extreme clutter of the marketplace.

Here's a simple (but headache-producing) test. Complete the following sentence: "Our brand is the only ? that ?." In the first blank, put the name of your category (robotics company, online university, fast-food chain). In the second blank put your key differentiator (sells voice-mimicking parrots, makes you the teacher, caters to vegans).

Does design pay off? The Design Management Institute partnered with Motiv Strategies to measure the return on design investment where it counts—in stock values. Over a 10-year period, a $10,000 investment in design-centric companies would have yielded returns 228 percent greater than the same investment in the S&P 500. And this is only an average.

The most frequent cause of failures in business is not people who answered the right questions incorrectly, but people who answered the wrong questions correctly. I have seen many companies "incrementalize" themselves into a corner, through a series of small—what appeared optimal—decisions, often based on erroneous assumptions.

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Hebrews 5:14 "Deception was—and still is—crucial to Satan's strategy.

Then as now, the easiest tactic for a government trying to reduce the pension bill was to raise the pension age. At

Fabius took command after Cannae, avoided pitched battle with Hannibal and played a waiting game, combining guerrilla tactics with a scorched-earth policy, to wear down the enemy (hence 'delayer').

even the British left-wing Fabian Society adopted his name and example – the message being, 'if you want the revolution to be successful, you must, like Fabius, bide your time'.

Roman military expansion drove Roman sophistication.

Then as now, the easiest tactic for a government trying to reduce the pension bill was to raise the pension age.