Strategic Planning Quotes

"When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy." "When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home." "I very frequently get the question, “What’s going to change in the next ten years?” And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question, “What’s not going to change in the next ten years?” And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two, because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time." "I don’t just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship." "He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious." "Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack." "Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical." "It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results." "Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: 1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight; 2) he will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces; 3) he will win whose army is animated by the same spirit th" "So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak." "If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering." "Day 2 companies make high-quality decisions, but they make high-quality decisions slowly. To keep the energy and dynamism of Day 1, you have to somehow make high-quality, high-velocity decisions." "Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal" "No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time" "Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you as entrepreneurs" "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people"