Quotes About Strategy

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Intuition is a powerful business tool. Use it.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.