Quotes About Strategy

But the idea burned into her mind as much as anything else was that she had lost because she'd hired people who put their own interests above getting her elected. The

within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.

Ultimately, it was a battle between those who believed that it was folly to think Hillary could show up in lower-population areas and change hearts and minds and those who believed, just as firmly, that politics and Hillary's path to victory were fundamentally about doing just that. That elemental split hung over nearly every internal skirmish over strategy and tactics—from

Hillary didn't have a vision to articulate. And no one else could give one to her. In

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He would negotiate with the devil if he thought he could get a hearing," Young said.

But that wasn't how Carter rolled.

As the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi used to say, you have to know your fundamentals to play a good game.

It was all by design, as he said later. Angry fighters don't think clearly. They don't stick to their plans. They get frustrated, sloppy. Clay knew that Liston was sensitive about his image, that he yearned for respect, and so Clay worked to deny him that respect. By labeling Liston an ugly bear, Clay was tweaking his opponent's most sensitive nerve and perhaps using racism to do it

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

But if you think about moral reasoning as a skill we humans evolved to further our social agendas—to justify our own actions and to defend the teams we belong to—then things will make a lot more sense. Keep your eye on the intuitions, and don't take people's moral arguments at face value. They're mostly post hoc constructions made up on the fly, crafted to advance one or more strategic objectives.

You can't have much of a mission without good allies and a good enemy.

you don't usually help the bees by destroying the hive. Finally

When great musicians practice, they go slowly enough that errors are avoided. When an error does crop up, expert practicers fix those errors immediately. That's the strategy: fixing a mistake immediately. Anybody can do it, and anybody who adopts that strategy will get better faster than those who don't.

With 25/50 blinds, a loose-aggressive player raised to 150 out of his 2,500 stack from middle position. You decided to call with 9-8 from the button. Both of the blinds folded. The flop came 9-8-4 and your opponent made a continuation bet of 250 into the 375 pot.

Do you work for Starbox? If so, I can't say I dig your new marketing strategy.

Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability.

If it rushed he'd slash. Stabbing is a fool's move, the blade gets caught. Ben knew that quick slashes could fend off even a big hound or a boar.

You can learn much about an enemy when you watch him win. We will watch and learn . . . and plan.

They're politicians, and politics is about leverage, not about the truth.

Lists are the only way out of this mess.

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calculation and boldness. (Photo courtesy John

Music has also been used in time of war. Its purpose was to rally the troops and to plant fear into the minds and hearts of the enemy. This happens once again through the moving of man's emotions.