Action Quote by Peter Drucker

To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is…

— Richard Koch

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

— Henry Mintzberg

I have observed that people make strategic plans for brands, businesses, and companies, but they are not always strategic about themselves.

— Denise Morrison

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the…

— Peter Drucker

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting…

— Peter Drucker

Many who know me or have worked for me are aware of my penchant for strategic planning. I consider it a critical component of…

— Ron Williams

The single most damaging misconception about strategy is that it is a set of financial performance goals. The so-called "strategies" created by many managements…

— Richard P. Rumelt

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something…

— Jack Welch

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly…

— Tom Rath

Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of…

— Max McKeown

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would…

— Kenichi Ohmae

Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do. A business unit needs to decide what need it…

— Philip Kotler