Quotes About Strategy

Strategy #5: Breaking the unsolved problem down into its component parts.

Strategy #6: Making a discrepant observation. This is where you're making an observation that differs from information that the child has already provided in the Empathy step.

history has taught them that disagreements are always handled using Plan A.

the unconscious is asking the conscious mind to make a plan.

We've said that willpower is humans' greatest strength, but the best strategy is not to rely on it in all situations. Save it for emergencies. As

Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: "You engage, and then you wait and see." By making contact with the enemy and then improvising, he triumphed and made his armies the envy (and the scourge) of Europe. His

Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Cam's Presidential Team.

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. […] Complex problems do not have simple solutions.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Batteries of machine guns firing point-blank at assaulting troops could turn an infantry attack into a mass suicide.

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

The only way to defend anything, Hubbard wrote, was to attack.

The fog of war hinders the enemy, and so let us leave him with it rather than dispel it.

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.