Strategy Quotes

Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

~ Pearl Zhu

A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.

~ Pearl Zhu

The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.

~ Pearl Zhu

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

~ Pearl Zhu

A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

~ Pearl Zhu

The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.

~ Pearl Zhu

Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.

~ Pearl Zhu

The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.

~ Pearl Zhu

The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.

~ Pearl Zhu

Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.

~ Pearl Zhu

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.

~ Pearl Zhu

Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.

~ Lance Conrad

Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.

~ Daniel Egger

Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

~ Deyth Banger

A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.

~ Pearl Zhu

A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

~ Pearl Zhu

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

~ Pearl Zhu

The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.

~ Pearl Zhu

If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.

~ Pearl Zhu

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

~ Lionel Suggs

The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a rabbit, and the rabbit gets away, that rabbit will always somehow instinctively run in a circle and return sooner or later past the very spot where he originally was jumped. Well, the old men would just sit and wait in hiding somewhere for the rabbit to come back, then get their shots at him. I got to thinking about it, and finally I thought of a plan. I would separate from them and Big Boy and I would go to a point where I figured that the rabbit, returning, would have to pass me first.It worked like magic. I began to get three and four rabbits before they got one. The astonishing thing was that none of the old men ever figured out why. They outdid themselves exclaiming what a sure shot I was. I was about twelve, then. All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business—you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.

~ Malcolm X

While you're taking your minute to think, consider the possible outcomes. Immediately discard any that involve making the Bully back down and admit that you're right. You cannot be right and effective at the same time.

~ Albert J. Bernstein

Strategy is not about doing things…it's about doing things deliberately.

~ Buffi Neal

Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

~ Will Advise

The speaker instructs his audience to cheer wildly at the word tomorrow -- then forgot. When he used the word building toward the climax of his presentation, he was so started he fell off the stage.

~ David Urso

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

~ Chris Matthews

The move is there, but you must see it.

~ Savielly Tartakower

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

~ Brandon Sanderson

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.

~ Kaoru Kurimoto

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not

~ David Halberstam

The art of war is the art of deception.

~ Sun Tzu

Leaders need to sacrifice power-over to get power-to.

~ Paul Gibbons

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

~ Paul Gibbons

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

~ Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

~ Paul Gibbons

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

~ Paul Gibbons

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

~ Paul Gibbons