Strategy Quotes - Page 6

Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

A good strategy and solid play doesn't revolve around tricks. It doesn't revolve around surprises. It doesn't revolve around having hidden information. It revolves around very solid strong timing, and crisp execution.

Time management is essential for a work-life balance.

You need a new strategy for every new situation.

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Only time can reveal the future.

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25

The art of war is the art of deception.

Unfulfilled needs makes training unfulfilled.

The requirement for the United States to craft a national security strategy (NSS) document was first codified in the National Security Act of 1947, and amended by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. The 1986 amendment requires the President to submit the document on an annual basis to Congress to provide a comprehensive report on U.S. national security strategy. Both pieces of legislation mandate that the strategy include a "comprehensive description and discussion of worldwide interests, goals, and objectives...that are vital to the national security of the United States." It would also address foreign policy, world wide military commitments, U.S. national defense capabilities, short- and long-term uses of the elements of national power, and the requirement to have the strategy transmitted to Congress in both classified and unclassified form. A number of national security strategies were developed over time prior to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, to include what many believe was the most significant grand strategy of the era, NSC-68, the key containment strategy against Soviet and Chinese communism. All were crafted during the pre-Goldwater-Nichals Act period at the classified level.

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

Putting in place the most ambitious and daring objective isn't enough, it should be backed with an intricate plan and executed like hell, this is what i call the superiority framework, from proximity the dots might seem random and chaotic but from a strategist view these dots are so beautifully interconnected forming greatness in an absolute form

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win...

The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.

Angry issues need settling time.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

Conflicts are expensive.

Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

Humankind’s struggle against a hostile environment causes people throughout the ages to deploy their full armory of logic, training, strategy, imagination, inventiveness, and creativity. We are born with the natural ability to strategize. The most influential tool in humankind’s intellectual tool kit is the ability to regenerate a sense of unruffled alertness, to establish a poised stance that leads to intuitive discoveries generated by the conscious and unconscious mind constantly filtering a plethora of data, selecting critical facts, and producing elegant solutions to seemingly insoluble dilemmas.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Change is possible only if the top management agrees.

A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.

The move is there, but you must see it.

Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

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When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. 

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems.

The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Leaders rule hearts, not people.

Relationships need to be valued today, for tomorrow is uncertain.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f

Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside from the prize at the end. She gets a rush from the gaming dynamics and appreciates the beauty of the game. At the end of the day, you play for the love of the game or not at all.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.