Quotes About Strategy

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

con una amenaza: «Si las tropas no están embarcadas

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.

Principle #10: Take Action: The Miracle Principle All the planning in the world, all the processes, models, and strategies for landing a job in a troubled job market, means absolutely nothing unless fueled by action. It is sometimes said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to your next job is paved with activity and positive action.

A CEO To increase global presence, product mix, and market share to improve and maintain shareholder earnings and value Mergers and acquisitions Reengineering and change management International corporate leadership experience Visionary strategist; identify and pursue new growth opportunities Board member and shareholder relations management Developer of world-class teams to achieve world-class results MBA from Oxford in international business Skilled in raising capital for growth and expansion

Step #5: Know the Four Global Options Using the Circle of Options Model

Staying safe is mostly a game of offense not defense. Prevention vs. Reaction!

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Determine who in your marketing area is already selling to the clients you want to be reaching, and who has their trust, respect, and goodwill. They would be selling something that either goes before, goes along with, or follows the product or service that you sell to people. Your product or service does not compete with their product or service, but it complements it. The

Instead, whatever we need, we just find someone who's eager to be a performance-based, profit-based sharing partner, and we joint-venture. If the first one turns us down, we ask, "Why?" Sometimes they give us an answer that I had never thought about. So, I figure out a preemptive way to overcome that, and the second or third person I go to will be on board. If

Whether you're going to approach your competitors directly about taking over their buyers on a permanent profit-sharing basis or you're going to focus on hiring away their top salespeople, you need to carefully plan your proposition, your presentation, and even the sensitivity/ empathy of your delivery.

One of the keys to collaboration success is first recognizing exactly what those on the other side want or need most that is not being provided or achieved and showing them that your prospects, your plan, your strategy will—not can—deliver it to and for them in better ways, and more quickly and easily than any other option they have.

Since these business owners are not constantly working to obsolesce themselves, they can rest assured that their competitors are.