Quotes About Strategy

too often "managements 'navel gaze' and look for problems or solutions only within their own organization."86 A viable strategic plan needs to focus first on the external world to determine what to do before focusing inward on how to do it.

Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.

I am not cruel," he said. "Not in the sense you mean. But cruelty is a useful tool if one can only recognise the precise moment when it must be used.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

The armlock is an armlock, a choke is a choke. How you set it up - is different. Everybody have their personal style.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Captains have their own personalities and the best ones make players adapt to their thinking and methods.

I like putting things together. The long game. Strategizing. Being able to mix and match personalities of guys.

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

When you first come to practice, you learn the guys. You're going to play with them for the next couple seasons. You just need to know what shots they like, how they run, how good a lead they are. You need to know your personnel.

Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.

If the best that we have is an iso, or if my personnel on my team dictates that that is really good, then that's what we're going to do.

Ultimately, you try to fit your personnel and what you can do as well into what you run.

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That's my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I'm going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.

Roblox's strength has always been both capitalizing on the early phase but playing the long-game as well.

The defensive phase is about the team, so it's about balance.