Quotes About Strategy

The steps are: establishing a sense of urgency, creating the guiding coalition, developing a vision and strategy, communicating the change vision, empowering a broad base of people to take action, generating short-term wins, consolidating gains and producing even more change, and institutionalizing new approaches in the culture.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer

Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith—the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

A political survivor has to follow a path through the ineffably complex maze of voters, donors, interest groups, and media mavens.

located in strategic states across the country. He knew that doesn't even happen in a dictatorship.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.

The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into the war that Cairo seems to be pushing for.

Anyone can copy your strategy, but no one can duplicate your culture!

Change Management seems to result in lots of management and little change. What I'm really looking for is Change Leadership!~ a very frustrated CEO

We tend to think we can separate strategy from culture, but we fail to notice that in most organizations strategic thinking is deeply colored by tacit assumptions about who they are and what their mission is. ~ Edgar Schein, professor MIT Sloan School of Management

A 50-deck PowerPoint presentation of the strategy may impress the board of directors, but it won't impress the competition or angry customers. Execution is the only competitive advantage. Strategy can only be realized through execution.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

People have said to me, 'Well, if you ran you might get more speaking appearances, and you could sell another book.' Frankly, that's the last thing on my mind. If I get in, I'll get in to win.

Getting Back To Even – Your Personal Economic Recovery Plan

But in More Stock Investing For Beginners we get into what I call the Warren Buffett mindset. It goes something like this. Just because the stock is selling for $ 5.17 right now doesn't mean you can't put an order in for $ 5.00.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Only fundamental objectives should be used to evaluate and compare alternatives.

Step 3: Separate ends from means to establish your fundamental objectives.