Game design and strategy (Bongo part 3)
Strategy – in its rare, non-bullshitty forms – is the secret sauce that elevates business to an art, and that has the power to create extraordinary brands who stand out like beacons in their categories and have no competition.
Alex M H Smith • No Bullsh*t Strategy
any strategy development process must be consultative, one in which individual partners can become convinced that the benefits to them personally of achieving the goals will be worth the personal “costs” of doing new things or different things.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Strategy involves the hard work of looking at probabilities and building likely outcomes into your plans. It might not be in our control, but we can still count the cards.
Seth Godin • This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life)
A strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty, designed through recognizing the challenge (diagnosis), setting a direction to overcome it (guiding policy), and detailing steps to implement the policy (coherent actions).
Packy McCormick • In Defense of Strategy
Strategy in chess is all about the why of movement i.e. why you should move here over there. This was different from all the business strategy books that I had read. They tend to focus on the goal or the why of purpose as the all important factor in business. But the purpose of winning the game was not the same as the strategic choices I made durin... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
Good strategy is design, and design is about fitting various pieces together so they work as a coherent whole.