#strategic

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

#decision #different #different place #does #faces

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO. ↗

— Max McKeown

#collaboration #innovation #leadership #management #planning

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do. ↗

— Alan W. Kennedy

#corporate-culture #risk #strategic-planning #strategy #values

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. ↗

— Max McKeown

#creativity #leadership #strategic #strategy #art

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

#cutting #does #i #move #options

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#also #any #bombs #called #could

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. ↗

— Bruce Perens

#filtered #marketing #open #open source #paradigm

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #improvement #leadership #problems #promotion

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. ↗

— Max McKeown

#empowerment #engagement #hr #management #motivation