Strategy Quotes - Page 16

• Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

  Tim Brown

  Thinking, Way, Designer

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Building Up

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• I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

  Ginni Rometty

  Years, Priorities, Together

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• Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Stalking, Underrated

  Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.41, Penguin

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• Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Team, Commitment, Impact

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• A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

  William Cohen

  Fall, Successful, Competition

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• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  William Cohen

  Successful, Opportunity, Problem

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.

  Terence MacSwiney

  Battle, Principles, Use

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• 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.

  Max McKeown

  Smart, Organization, Differences

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• Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

  Max McKeown

  Mean, Brilliant, Ends

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• Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.

  Max McKeown

  Art, War, Creative

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• Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Land, People

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• So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.

  Jay Sekulow

  Judging, Challenges, President

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• Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Enemy, Dictator

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• With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.

  Orit Gadiesh

  People, Principles, Needs

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• Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

  Alan G. Lafley

  Great Business, Knows

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• Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Art, Winning, Thinking

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• I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

  Sid Meier

  Thinking, Past, Games

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• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

  Van Jones

  Successful, Long, Principles

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• Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.

  Van Jones

  Oil, People, Coal

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.

  Peter Senge

  Leadership, Powerful, Simple

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• Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

  E. O. Wilson

  Children, Commitment, Age

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• Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly support gay marriage. What if someone told you you couldn't marry the one you love? I think it's about time! Let people who love each other that are the same sex get married. They deserve the right to be happy also.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

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