Strategy

Study past define future

“Study the past if you would define the future.”

― Confucius (551BC-479BC)

chaos opportunity

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”

― Sun Tzu (544-496BC)

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“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”

― Criss Jami

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

—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”

― Jonathan Stroud

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“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)

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“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

― Michael E. Porter

advantage temporary

“Every advantage is temporary.”

― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

copy what how never WHY

“People will copy what you do and how you do it, but they can never copy WHY you are.”

― Zach Mercurio

innovation creativity ingredient success

“Innovation and creativity are the basic ingredients of success.”

― Kevin G. Coleman

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“Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions”

—Henry Mintzberg

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“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

― Sun Tzu (544-496BC)

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“Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite”

—Robert Half

fool strategy map

“Don’t fool yourself: having a strategy map is not the same as having a strategy”

organisation ability learn translate action rapisly advantage

“An organisation’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage”

—Jack Welch

strategy results

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”

― Winston S. Churchill (1876-1965)

Strategy choice trade-off different

"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It's about deliberately choosing to be different."

—Michael Porter