Quotes About Strategy

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.