Strategy: A History
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
Which is what grand strategy is meant to prevent. I’ll define that term, for the purposes of this book, as the alignment of potentially unlimited aspirations with necessarily limited capabilities. If you seek ends beyond your means, then sooner or later you’ll have to scale back your ends to fit your means. Expanding means may attain more ends, but
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
Scott Miller • The Leadership Campaign
“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”
For Gray, Ends were the goals, Ways the actions taken, Means were the resources deployed, and Assumptions were the necessary leaps, imagination, and guesses.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategy is a military term simply meaning a plan of action towards a goal.19
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Lawrence Freedman
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