Top 10
1. “If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.” ― Steinbeck John
2. “Change is inevitable, progress is not.”― Max McKeown
3. “If you can't measure it, you can't change it”.—Peter Drucker
4. “Strategy without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison
5. “Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”— Kenichi Ohmae
6. “Don’t measure your performance by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished within your capabilities”—Jeroen De Flander
7. “In a 4×100-metre relay race, one runner starts before the other, but in the end it’s the sum of the four runners that determines performance”—Jeroen De Flander
8. “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”.—Will Rogers
9. “Initiative prioritisation doesn’t mean distributing all available resources to all known projects”—Volker Voigt
10. “Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.”— Jon Madonna
More Food For Thought
11. “Buy-in that doesn’t translate into coherent day-to-day actions, contributes nothing to your desired results”—Kris Foye
12. “Strategy refines your business model to what will deliver results, in the emerging future it will need to operate” –Kris Foye
13. “Making it easier for your strategy to be implemented than for it not to be, drastically reduces the workload required for it to succeed”—Kris Foye
14. “If on a given day you or your staff are unclear on how your strategy should shape your daily decisions, then your ability to implement your strategy will be mitigated to some degree”—Kris Foye
15. “If your emotions dictate your strategy, the likelihood that you’ll achieve your goals will haphazardly change from one day to the next”.—Kris Foye
16. “It’s easier to implement a given strategy like it is a top priority when there’s clarity on the day-to-day costs of not implementing it”—Kris Foye
17. “Unfortunately, most people seem to have been misled on what business strategy is, much less what it is not and how to get the most out of it”—Kris Foye
18. “Main character syndrome is not a business strategy that lets you scale”—Kris Foye
19. “Strategy execution is the ability to convert plans into results.” – Tomoaki Hasegawa
20. “Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite” —Robert Half
21. "Transient advantage is the new normal." — Rita Gunther McGrath, Professor at Columbia Business School
22. “If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering." — Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO of Amazon
23. “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”.—Sun Tzu
24. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.—Peter Drucker
25. “Tactics give your business strategies the flexibility to navigate changes in on-the-ground realities, while strategies make your tactics coherent”.—Kris Foye
26. “Selectively acknowledging the facts, will make it hard for a strategy that needs to adapt to give you good results”—Kris Foye
27. “Repeatedly asking a question until you get a yes, is not the same as solving the cause of why you first heard a no. The latter has a better impact on your strategy meeting’s ROI.”—Kris Foye
28. “If your goal or strategy are just seen as mental exercises rather than something you’re truly committed to seeing through, then you’ve set your business up for failure before you even start”—Kris Foye