Believe Quote by Ron Williams

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

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

— Kenichi Ohmae

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

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

— Henry Mintzberg

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

— Ginni Rometty

Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to…

— Stan Shih

The key here is that with planning, you can take advantage of opportunities, where without this planning, you may just watch them pass you…

— Bruce Pittman

“More than anything else, this disconnect—between the way planning works and the way decision making happens—explains the frustration, if not outright antipathy, most executives…

— Harvard Business School Press

“Effective strategy planners spread strategy reviews throughout the year rather than squeeze them into a two- or three-month window. This allows senior executives to…

— Harvard Business School Press

Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

— Jude Bijou

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But…

— Peter Drucker