Strategic Thinking Quotes

• Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Thinking, Analysis, Starting

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously

  Michael Porter

  Thinking, Strategic

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• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  Attributed to Henry Mintzberg in C. W. Cook, P. L. Hunsaker "Management and organizational behavior" (p. 58), 2001.

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Business, Character

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Business

  "Basics of retail Management". Book by Narendra Kumar et al.,

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• If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

  Robert Greene

  Sports, Drama, Thinking

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Zero, Thinking, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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