strategy quotes
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A set of quotes about strategy I using during strategic planning sessions. Run it as a slideshow in Powerpoint or using Powerpoint Viewer. (Thanks to www.wordle.net for the front slide graphic.) ...Geoff (www.performancepeople.com.au)TRANSCRIPT
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what
none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu
In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy
or organization.
Tom Peters
Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.
Robert Filek
The first strategy of war is an armed force that is fully
mobilized and consumed with the desire to win. Without that,
all other strategies are vain.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What is the aim or purpose of strategy? To improve our ability to shape and adapt to unfolding
circumstances, so that we … can survive on our own terms.
John R. Boyd, USAF
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but
the opposite: its starting point.
Henry Mintzberg
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they
were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Miyamoto Musashi, 1584? – 1645
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the
strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
However beautiful the strategy, you should
occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael Leboeuf
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a
strategy is useless.
Charles De Gaulle
The recognition of the tension between values and numbers is
the first requirement of the strategic manager, and it is the effective reconciliation of that
tension that marks a great manager.
Harold Evans
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal
processes with the customer value proposition is the core of
any strategy execution.
Robert S. Kaplan
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a matter of
being different at what you do.
Michael Porter
Not everything that can be counted counts and not
everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan
and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have
committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and
public life have been the consequence of action without
thought.
Bernard M. Baruch
It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
Graeme Edwards
It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.
Jib Fowles
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
Abraham Lincoln
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. Milne