Quotes About Strategy

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Manage from the left; lead from the right.

You might work on your behavior—you could try harder, be more diligent, double your speed. But your efforts would only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. You

We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have" (Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind).

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish?

More than doing things right, it's focused on doing the right things.

I am convinced that when recruiting and selecting is done strategically, that is, thinking long-term and proactively, not based upon the pressures of the moment, it pays enormous long-term dividends.

To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

in an artificial social system such as school, you may be able to get by if you learn how to manipulate the man-made rules, to "play the game.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system;

We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.

Mission statements are also vital to successful organizations.

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

focusing on what, not how; results, not methods.

If you were to do one thing in your professional work that you know would have enormously positive effects on the results, what would it be?

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Todo establecimiento de un objetivo debe verse inmediatamente seguido por el desarrollo de un plan

if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. But if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Do you understand?" "I don't