Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi

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

É necessário a um príncipe saber usar do animal com destreza, dentre todos ele deve escolher a raposa e o leão, pois o leão não pode defender-se de armadilhas, e a raposa é indefesa diante...

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream. It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Camouflage doesn’t help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

The best defense is a good offense.

Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to...

Wine gives one ‘ideas,’ whereas champagne gives one ‘strategies.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.

The typical industry approach is [retailers] to treat vendors like the enemy… If vendors can’t make a profit then they don’t have money to invest in research and development, which in turn means that the...

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

If you need me I’ll be napping in the supplies closet. The most important part of an attack is the planning.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi

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...

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation,...

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your...

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

We see anything actionable, we don’t react to it. We consider it.

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**That’s right – the essential insight doesn’t come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and...

Viel Leisten – wenig hervortreten – mehr sein als scheinen.”Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

We are at war. There will be scars. – Uttara Vairati

Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can’t just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.

O maior remédio utilizado contra os desígnios do inimigo é fazeres voluntariamente aquilo que ele planeja que tu faças à força, porque fazendo-o de forma voluntária, tu o fazes com ordem e para vantagem tua...

Love spiritually, not strategically.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

To withdraw isn’t a sign of weakness… It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day...

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who’s often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.

When you know your enemy is invincible,run and hide, or may do business with him.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.