Quotes About Strategy

Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic How to Solve It: "If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.

Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic How to Solve It: "If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P

A few lucky gambles can crown a reckless leader with a halo of prescience and boldness.

The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions.

Leaders of large businesses sometimes make huge bets in expensive mergers and acquisitions, acting on the mistaken belief that they can manage the assets of another company better than its current owners do.

Amos liked the idea of an adjust-and-anchor heuristic as a strategy for estimating uncertain quantities: start from an anchoring number, assess whether it is too high or too low, and gradually adjust your estimate by mentally "moving" from the anchor. The adjustment typically ends prematurely, because people stop when they are no longer certain that they should move farther.

Give your due diligence to understanding business or you will have no place in it.

Most of us have adopted a strategy to get along called satisficing, a term coined by the Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of the fields of organization theory and information processing. Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough. For things that don't matter critically, we make a choice that satisfies us and is deemed sufficient.

He sent in a conventional force, admittedly just a few men from the Tenth Mountain Division. It reminded all that there were never enough SOF. Airpower had killed effectively in Qala-i-Jangi. After all the hammering, though, people had to go in on the ground with rifles, grenades, and guts. To control dirt and the societies that lived on it, you had to use live, trained, disciplined humans, and more than a few.

In the West, military intelligence (MI) analysts have long followed a simple premise: Assess enemy capabilities, not intentions.

Master Sun put it simply: "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril

In 1944, B-17 bomber formations dropped 9,070 bombs in order to hit one German building. In 1967, F-105 jet fighter-bombers used 176 munitions to knock out a single North Vietnamese building. By 1991, a smart F-16 fighter-bomber could do the job with thirty bombs, or just one, if the bomb was smart too.

The U.S. collected information superbly and everywhere, from space to dirt. They tracked all kinds of events and things and people. For long-lead-time matters, like the order of battle for the Chinese fleet, that sufficed. For short-fuse needs, it got much, much more excruciating. Of the mass of data gathered, only a small percentage (50 percent? 10 percent? 5 percent?) ever got analyzed. Only a tiny fraction of that produced the specificity to allow action.

Da questo punto di vista, per un buon percorso di studi letterari la strategia conta almeno quanto la capacità di comprendere i testi. E un - cattivo studente- è, più spesso di quanto si creda, un ragazzino tragicamente privo di doti tattiche. Solo che, preso dal terrore di non darci quel che ci aspettiamo da lui, comincia subito a confondere studi scolastici e cultura.

Simply put, politics is about "who gets what, when, and

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.

Sometimes it is better to give an opponent a small victory then suffer a devastating defeat yourself. Gabriel Allon

commissioned theft. Or, as Durand liked to describe it, he managed the acquisition of paintings that were not technically for sale.

A very wise man once told me that hope is not an acceptable strategy when lives are at stake. - Gabriel Allon

A veces un terrorista vivo es más útil que un terrorista muerto.

The Americans came in force, the French in style.

Hope is not an acceptable strategy when lives are at stake. Hope is what led to 9/11. - Adrian Carter

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought.