Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. — Henry Mintzberg
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking — Kenichi Ohmae
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it. — Robert Greene
Don’t get wrapped around tactical competition. Think strategic all the time. — Jocko Willink
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. — Henry Mintzberg
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence. — William H. Hastie
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions — Henry Mintzberg
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal — Michael Porter
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. — C. K. Prahalad
The real heart of strategy is the strategist. — Max McKeown
Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. — Ingvar Kamprad
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. — Peter Drucker
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. — Michael Porter
Short Strategic Thinking Quotes
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. — Henry Mintzberg
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things. — Michael Porter
Big thinking precedes great achievement. — Wilferd A. Peterson
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure. — Peter Drucker
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov
Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly. — Dhirubhai Ambani
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. — John P. Kotter
Strategic Thinking Image Quotes
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. — Jim Rohn
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
Strategic Planning Quotes
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that just because what is being said is crazy to the point of absurdity does not mean that the strategic plan is absurd. — Bret Weinstein
Further diversifying our economy is a key strategic focus of our future plans. It is therefore necessary to accelerate economic development efforts to continue building a leading global economy, to enhance our competitiveness and achieve the highest global rankings. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
There's a path for everyone — as long as you have self-awareness and the willingness to think five moves ahead. — Patrick Bet-David
They wanted war as part of their strategic grand plan to destroy any country such as Russia that resists American imperial expansion. They only pretend to think it was unprovoked. They are lying to us, manufacturing consent for war. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. — Peter Drucker
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. — Azim Premji
To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness. — Richard Koch
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again. — T. Harv Eker
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. — Frank Shorter
Strategic Management Quotes
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. — Michael Porter
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model — Harold Kerzner
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly. — Harriet Rubin
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell. — Richard Moran
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it. — David C. McClelland
The number one thing I urge people to remember is it is all about being scientific about managing strategic uncertainty, while striking the important balance between being thorough and being flexible. — Scott D. Anthony
In the current situation, particular attention should be given to the quality of financial and economic management. The Government and the Central Bank should have a strategic action plan — Tatyana Golikova
More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived. — Peter Dicken
Strategic Leadership Quotes
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you. — Denise Morrison
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. — Peter Senge
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not. — Colin Powell
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who yu are.
I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions. — Dalia Grybauskaite
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. — John Olver
We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time. — J. Oswald Sanders
This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources. — Martin Dempsey
Critical Thinking Quotes
Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking. — Bhagat Singh
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. — William Arthur Ward
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. — Ernest Hemingway
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. — Richard Dawkins
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. — E. O. Wilson
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. — Fulton J. Sheen
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'? — Leonard Ravenhill
Future Thinking Quotes
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. — Kahlil Gibran
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace. — Adi Shankara
Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it. — Billy Graham
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. — Hugh Hefner
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections. — Abraham Lincoln
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential. — Ratan Tata
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially. — Chris Cornell
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. — Earl Nightingale
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. — Maxim Gorky
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. — Joel Osteen
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho
I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it. — David Sinclair
You want to rest your mind. You want to learn how to settle into your mind. Now, I look forward to solitary confinement. You leave me alone for a day, it will be the happiest day I’ve had in awhile. That is a superpower that I think everybody can attain. — Naval Ravikant
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. — Joe Dimaggio
Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas — T. D. Jakes
When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still. — Beth Moore
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump
Business Strategy Quotes
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master. — Philip Kotler
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
If one day we must sell something, first we want to turn it around and make it profitable. — Bernard Arnault
Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a vehicle for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for the development of high-impact drugs in dementia and the neuroscience field more generally. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. — George S. Patton
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. — Lawrence Bossidy
Deep Thinking Quotes
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking. — Mahathir Mohamad
Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. — Johnny Depp
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people? — Mitchell Reiss
As it stands, a large number of firms in all advanced economies specialize in warfare as a business, and are thus reliant on perpetuating war to continue being in business. They live off government spending exclusively, and have their entire existence reliant on there being perpetual wars necessitating ever‐larger arms spending. In the United States, whose defense spending is almost equal to that of the rest of the planet combined, these industries have a vested interest in keeping the U.S. government involved in some form of military adventure or other. This, more than any strategic, cultural, ideological, or security operations, explains why the United States has been involved in so many conflicts in parts of the world that cannot possibly have any bearing on the life of the average American. Only with unsound money can these firms grow to such enormous magnitude that they can influence the press, academia, and think tanks to continuously beat the drums of more war. — Saifedean Ammous
I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way. — Jason Statham
All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach. — Vladimir Putin
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that. — Ray Anderson
Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression. — Mike Pence
While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war. — Ivan Bagramyan
To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally. — Robert Greene
If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day. — Les Brown
I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one. — Helmut Schmidt
I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically. — Mike Pence
I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people. — Nancy Pelosi
Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves. — Patrick Lencioni
I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess. — Michael Eric Dyson
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously — Michael Porter
We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. — Steve Jobs
People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid. — Nicki Minaj
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life. — Will Self
Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so. — Marine Le Pen
I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T. — William Morris
Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward. — David Bonderman
I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically. — Ashton Carter
It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests. — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible. — Alfred Molina
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. — Todd Gitlin
I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all. — Hillary Clinton
From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically. — Richard Branson
I think if you could remove all of the baggage - all of the ideology, the history, whatever else - and look in purely geostrategic terms, I think it's hard to figure out why the US and Iran would necessarily be in conflict. In fact during the shah's era, before 1979 - recognizing that there were all kinds of other problems - the US and Iran worked together splendidly at the strategic level. — Kenneth M. Pollack
That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception. — Clancy Martin
I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win. — Ai Weiwei
I think stupidity in business is really an interesting thing. What winds up happening is a disconnect between your company's strategic management and then your more applied on-the-street management. I guarantee with you that the board of directors of most companies has no idea what the costs of hiring people really is in the HR department. — Nick Corcodilos
From a geo-strategic point of view, I consider Iran a bigger problem than the Islamic State. ISIS is a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology. But they have to conquer more and more territory before they can became a geo-strategic, permanent reality. I think a conflict with ISIS - important as it is - is more manageable than a confrontation with Iran. — Henry A. Kissinger
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind of a strategic thing on my part, because I think that it's the hardest definition to argue with. You know, who doesn't want that? Everyone wants equality for women. — Jessica Valenti
How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that stretch out indefinitely into the future? I call this effort macrostrategy - that is, to think about the really big strategic situation for having a positive impact on the long-term future. There's the butterfly effect: A small change in an initial condition could have arbitrarily large consequences. — Nick Bostrom
The Philippines are a very important - I have many, many friends from the Philippines. They're great people. The Philippines strategically is very important to us. I think we'll have a great relationship with the Philippines. I think it's strategically very important to do so. — Donald Trump
That's tangent, but I like the strategizing and thinking about how things are going to fall and thinking of different ways to engage with fans. Ultimately, the goal is for the music to be heard by as many people as possible. — Dan Deacon
I think that when you saw Donald Trump absolutely calling Hillary Clinton crooked, the "lock her up, lock her up," all of that was developed. I think that was developed strategically with people from the Kremlin, with Vladimir Putin. — Maxine Waters
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