Architecture Quote by Gary L. Neilson

“Every one strengthens one or more of the building blocks executives can use to improve their strategy-execution capability: clarifying decision rights, improving information, establishing…

— Gary L. Neilson

“a strategy is a coordinated and integrated set of five choices: a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management…

— A.G. Lafley

“Managers must clearly distinguish operational effectiveness from strategy.”

— Michael E. Porter

“Research by Neilson, Martin, and Powers shows that execution exemplars focus their efforts on two levers far more powerful than structural change: • Clarifying…

— Gary L. Neilson

“Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.”

— Pearl Zhu

“They had a clear and defined approach to strategy, a thinking process that enabled individual managers to effectively make clearer and harder choices. That…

— A.G. Lafley

“use the strategy development process to drive decision making.”

— Harvard Business School Press

“A great strategic approach isn’t just about goals; it’s about aligning resources, timing, and execution.”

— Wayne Chirisa

“Strategy needn’t be mysterious. Conceptually, it is simple and straightforward. It requires clear and hard thinking, real creativity, courage, and personal leadership.”

— A.G. Lafley

“The challenge of developing or reestablishing a clear strategy is often primarily an organizational one and depends on leadership. With so many forces at…

— Michael E. Porter

“Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out…

— Robert G. Thompson

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

— Henry Mintzberg