Quotes About Strategy

One fundamental principle that I have learned in diplomacy is you cannot separate diplomacy from the consequences of action."150 And "[d]iplomacy and power are not discrete activities. They are linked, though not in the sense that each time negotiations stall, you resort to force."151

In a broader sense, visualizations inform strategy. They are a key way of seeing the market from the customer's perspective. Mapping experiences isn't a nice-to-have design tool; it's a must-have for strategic alignment.

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

The training, decision-making wise, should be harder than the game,' says Wayne Smith. 'So you try an overlying principle of throwing problems at them – unexpected events – forcing them to solve the problems.

James L. Stokesbury

The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the field the earliest; theorists concluded that mobilization of a vast number of men was of primary importance.

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His game of hide-and-seek about Bull Bun, Centreville, and Manassas Plains was grand, but marred in completeness by the failure of General A. P. Hill to meet his orders for the afternoon of the 28th. As a leader he was fine; as a wheel-horse, he was not always just to himself. He was fond of the picturesque.

General Lee said that the attack of his right was not made as early as expected,—which he should not have said. He knew that I did not believe that success was possible; that care and time should be taken to give the troops the benefit of positions and the grounds; and he should have put an officer in charge who had more confidence in his plan. Two-thirds of the troops were of other commands, and there was no reason for putting the assaulting forces under my charge.

Tarkin smiled. "Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.

The United States has usually prepared for its wars after getting into them. Never was this more true than in the Civil War.

the satanic strategy of using lies to disguise, divide, and destroy. Let's focus on the middle word of Satan's plan to defeat you. The word is divide and his strategy is to get a wedge between you and men who can support God's work in your life through loving mutual community. As always he does this through lies.

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity; if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. Erwin Rommel

There is an important difference between the politician who is simply an able tactician, and the politician who is a creative political

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

Excellent. It looks like we've got it all worked out for me to join a group of men sworn to kill me so we can face off with a dragon that melts stone with his breath." She grinned. "And Stagger used to complain that I never planned ahead.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

By insisting on "grace alone" the Reformers were denying that human methods, techniques, or strategies in themselves could ever bring anyone to faith. It is grace alone expressed through the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that brings us to Christ, releasing us from our bondage to sin and raising us from death to spiritual life.

The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.

Just as infinite play cannot be contained within finite play, culture cannot be authentic if held within the boundaries of a society. Of course, it is often the strategy of a society to initiate and embrace a culture as exclusively its own. Culture so bounded may even be so lavishly subsidized and encouraged by society that it has the appearance of open-ended activity, but in fact it is designed to serve societal interests in every case-like the socialist realism of Soviet art.

It is the desire of all finite players to be Master Players, to be so perfectly skilled in their play that nothing can surprise them, so perfectly trained that every move in the game is foreseen at the beginning.

A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in the game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.

Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game.