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• What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

  Jeff Bezos

  Wind, World, Complaining

  "Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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• In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.

  Terence MacSwiney

  Battle, Principles, Use

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• The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

  William Nordhaus

  Kyoto Protocol, Environmental, Economics

  William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

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• When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

  Daniel Suarez

  Civilization, Survival, Humans

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.39, Penguin

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• The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

  Max McKeown

  Smart, Organization, Differences

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• Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

  Max McKeown

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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• Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.

  Max McKeown

  Art, War, Creative

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• A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

  Max McKeown

  Mind, Meetings, Meetings Of The Minds

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.148, Pearson UK

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

  Max McKeown

  Mean, Brilliant, Ends

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• With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

  Max McKeown

  Clever, Self, Victory

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• How much time have you invested in thinking about strategy? How many options have you considered before the plan was written? How have you ensured that the thinking behind the plan is challenged? How much time do you spend exploring trends, possibilities and cool stuff? How much time is spent playing with ideas, hopes and dreams?

  Max McKeown

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

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• So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.

  Jay Sekulow

  Judging, Challenges, President

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• Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.

  Orit Gadiesh

  People, Principles, Needs

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• Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

  Alan G. Lafley

  Great Business, Knows

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• Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Art, Winning, Thinking

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• It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Military, Artist, Government

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• The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.

  Peter Senge

  Leadership, Powerful, Simple

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• I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

  Sid Meier

  Thinking, Past, Games

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• Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Enemy, Dictator

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• Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Land, People

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• Peak oil: The over-populated UK's ability to feed and supply itself for our privileged lifestyle requires the land and resources of other nations. Against a background of depleting oil resources, this is a dangerous strategy

  Phil Harding

  Land, Oil, Lifestyle

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• Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

  Al Ries

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Mud

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2006). “Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Every move creates a weakness.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Weakness, Chess

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