Quotes Issue #2 — Strategy
Quotes Issue #2 — Strategy
Quotes that resonate with me regarding strategy and an invitation to share your favorite.
“Failure is nothing more than a chance to revise your strategy.”
— Anonymous
Welcome to Quotes Issue #2!
Thanks to those of you who hit reply and let me know you wanted to see more quotes posts. I’m going to stick with this as the Friday post for a couple of months to see if it gets more traction and hope you find the ones I choose interesting.
But to really make this work I need your help and it is very easy for you to do. Just hit reply when you receive any of the weekday posts in your inbox and share your favorite quote with me. If you are reading this on the website, you can email me here.
I look forward to hearing from you and learning from your favorite quote. Feel free to share a bit about what it means to you. Oh, and make sure you give me your name and affiliation so I can credit you when I share your quote in a future post.
Remember: The BIG VISION for this is to publish a weekly set of quotes to help all of us serve all of us as we strive to become what we are capable of becoming and unleash our potential to change the world! Will you join me on the journey?
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This week’s theme is STRATEGY.
Midway through my fourth decade of doing strategy work with clients, I have come to one conclusion — it gets less attention than it should most of the time. Execution feels easier, doing is more fun, the uncertainty of the long-view is unsettling. Strategy gets pushed to the side in favor of action.
And that is a mistake.
Having the courage to dream big and think through the possibilities pushes us. When we begin to see what is possible, it pulls us to do the work, it engages others in helping us, and it takes us further than we would have gone.
The following quotes follow mirror my core belief — strategy matters because it drives us to become what we are capable of becoming.
My favorite quote on strategy is …
““The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
—Michael Porter
Nothing matters more personally and in business than defining the guardrails within which you will operate. Knowing what you will and will not do makes every decision easier and allows you to go further faster with less distraction.
Here are 5 more quotes on STRATEGY I love …
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
—Sun Tsu
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.”
—Japanese Proverb
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”
—Henry David Thoreau
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
—Jack Welch
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak”
—Hans Hoffmann
What quote (about any topic) inspires you?
Please hit reply (or email me here) and share it with me — the quote, the source, and how you would like me to reference you when I share it in a future issue, along with any thoughts you care to share about why you chose to share it.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Michael
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