1,050 Quotes About Strategy

Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

I believe that if that vision or dream comes from God, He will also give you the strategy to bring it to pass.

The traditional units of strategic analysis—company and industry—have little explanatory power when it comes to analyzing how and why blue oceans are created.(..)The most appropriate unit of analysis for explaining the creation of blue oceans is the strategic move—the set of managerial actions and decisions involved in making a major market creating business offering.

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.

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.

In this day and time, a digital brand can launch you into a billion-dollar business.