Consequence Quote by Henry Mintzberg Download Open image “Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.” — Henry Mintzberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consequence Opposites Planning Starting Starting point Strategy
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
“Mistaking goals for strategy. Many bad strategies are just statements of desire rather than plans for overcoming obstacles.” — Richard Rumelt Copy Share Image
Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these… — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,” — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the manager’s special… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to… — Tom Segev Copy Share
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
