Quotes About Strategy

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

The core leadership strategy is simple: be a model.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

You must use your head when figuring out this challenge, and that is the best part.

A better brand = better clients = a better, more profitable business

Your Personal Brand is your weapon in the visibility battle.

minds. As a wise woman wrote "Language as an articulation of reality is more primordial than strategy, structure, or culture."[31]

The planning process includes at least the following six functions: forming a representation of the problem, choosing a goal, deciding to plan, formulating a plan, executing and monitoring the plan, and learning from the plan.

you should never bet money on a boxer who crosses himself before a fight, because any fighter relying on the grace of god is a dead duck.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.

Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28

Informal, Explicit, Relevant Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Fun A strategic conversation is a carefully thought-out but loosely facilitated series of in-depth conversations for the key decision-makers throughout an organization. Strategic conversations don't exist in addition to existing planning efforts; they are effective ways of framing the planning efforts that already take place, to further illuminate the decisions that are already being made.

Mark Hanna, who served as President William McKinley's chief fund-raiser. (Hanna once famously said, "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.")

I think test-driven design is great. I do that a lot more than I used to do. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.

tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.

The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there.

If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you," Jordan said.

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray—once your picks are in, that's it.

Michael Beychok: "I became a successful bettor when I started playing the tournaments.

Most experienced tournament players understand that you tend to win in clusters anyway.