Strategy Development Quotes

When you talk about forming an offensive identity, it's about, first, let's figure out what our players do best.

Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

Strategy draws its inspiration each century, or rather at each moment of history, from the problems which events themselves pose.

The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.

If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Part of my responsibility as an officer was to oversee a team of analysts charged with synthesizing all of the data points on the map to see how one related to another. By bringing those data points together, a broader picture could be drawn and a strategy developed to counter the existing threat.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

I think it's more than bank records. I think that you can see that visits, you know, to Moscow were made during the campaign by Paul Manafort and others. I think that there was a cooperation in developing strategy about how Russians could ensure that Hillary Clinton was not elected. They need Donald Trump. Trump will be there to support lifting those sanctions. That's what they really want to happen.

As I get better competition, I guarantee that more finishes are gonna come, because I'll really get to use more of my skill, rather than me knowing that I'm so much better than the guy.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

I just go out and play my best tennis.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy - a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.

For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.

Whether that's in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.

So I think, for me, playing matches - actually being in real matches - is the best way to get myself playing the best tennis.