Your strategy portfolio has one critical job: Surprise!
A design-type strategy is an adroit configuration of resources and actions that yields an advantage in a challenging situation. Given a set bundle of resources, the greater the competitive challenge, the greater the need for the clever, tight integration of resources and actions.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Rather, the term “strategy” should mean a cohesive response to an important challenge.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
The word “strategy” is a military term, which means a plan of action towards a goal. I want to really emphasize the “a”s in that sentence—there is a practice of narrowing down, identifying one path forward, one strategy, one way, one agenda, one leader, one set of values, etc. Reducing the wild and wonderful world into one thing that we can grasp,
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The goal is your shining light, the unwavering destination of your work. Your strategy is the long-lasting way you’re investing in reaching that goal.
Seth Godin • This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
Strategy often starts as passion or instincts driven by your unique way of looking at the world of investments. It is comprised of the knowledge and insights you developed or fused from your education, experiences, and beliefs.
Michael Eisenberg • The Tree of Life and Prosperity: 21st Century Business Principles from the Book of Genesis
a strategy is a way to win. Although it’s seemingly that simple on one level, practitioners know that strategy is also about making choices. It’s about deciding not only what to do but what not to do. And it definitely involves making choices about who to involve, how to listen, which ideas to consider, and how to make tough decisions, as well as k
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