Quotes About Strategy

You can't just close your eyes and hope everything turns out all right. That's a fine strategy for jumping out of an airplane, but it's no way to conduct your life. In order to get anywhere you must first know where it is you want to go. Then you can figure out how to get there.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Thanks, Neil," Emma said. "So, what do you want to do next?" she asked DeMarco. "Find out what Stephanie Taliaferro Hernandez has on Quinn." "And how do you propose to do that?" "I have no idea.

the problem isn't finding data, it's figuring out what to do with it.

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My dad saw hockey as almost an improvement on soccer. My British relatives would say, 'But, Eric, football is the thinking-man's game.' My dad would say, 'True. But, hockey is a fast thinking-man's game.

Hay que pensar en grandes cosas mientras se hacen pequeñas cosas, para que todas las pequeñas cosas vayan en la dirección correcta. ALVIN TOFFLER

Un ejemplo de una visión a largo plazo útil y no demasiado restringida es la visión inicial de Toyota Motor Corporation de «Mejores automóviles para más personas».6 ¿Qué

Visión de Toyota para sus operaciones de producción Tal como se representa en la figura 3.5, Toyota ha perseguido durante varias décadas una visión a largo plazo de sus operaciones de producción que consta de:7 •Cero defectos. •Cien por cien de valor añadido. •Flujo de una sola pieza, en orden, a petición. •Seguridad para las personas. Figura 3.5. Visión de Toyota de las operaciones de producción.

management: The systematic pursuit of desired conditions by utilizing human capabilities in a concerted way.

Work hard AND smart.

the ingredients for the best political donnybrook

Whether it be placing advertisements, predicting customer behavior, anticipating equipment failure or even pricing products and services, the most useful people in your strategy team in the future might not be the MBA graduates, but those with the degrees in pure mathematics.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.

That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!

Have you ever used your neighbor's Wi-Fi when it wasn't on a password? If you have the opportunity to observe someone at work, you are getting mentoring out of them even if they are unaware or resistant. Make a list of the people you think would make the greatest mentors and try to get close enough to steal their Wi-Fi.

Invisibility is the best advantage. But if forced to a confrontation, Come out with all your skill.

The longer I stood there, the longer I had to stand there. It was intricate and exponential. I looked like I was doing nothing, but really I was as busy as a physicist or a politician. I was strategizing my next move. That my next move was always not to move didn't make it any easier.

Parrying a blow before it strikes, Giving a commission to one who is skillful.

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'