Best Strategic Management Quotes

#1. The foremost thing is to realize that IT is strategic at board level.

Pearl Zhu

#2. I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

Harry Connick Jr.

#3. To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.

Roger Ailes

#4. The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance.

Pearl Zhu

#5. What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

Bill Vaughan

#6. Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

Peter Drucker

#7. We had come to see blackguards; but these men were something worse. There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism - here there was nothing but tragedy - mute, weird tragedy. The quiet in the room was horrible.

Wilkie Collins

#8. You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.

Douglas Leone

#9. Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it's disappointing.

Edward W. Robertson

#10. People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter F. Drucker

#11. Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

Harold Kerzner

#12. Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.

Christopher Paolini

#13. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Max McKeown

#14. When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner.

Sameh Elsayed

#15. Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.

Robert Waterman Jr.

#16. I do wish to emphasize that in light of the Alibaba deal, Youku Tudou management will remain independent, and we will continue to be open to opportunities for cooperation with other strategic partners going forward.

Victor Koo

#17. Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Mary Douglas

#18. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.

Jack LaLanne

#19. Strategy is about shaping the future.

Max McKeown

#20. Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

Barbara Johnson

#21. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#22. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#23. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

Andrew Griffin

#24. When you experience it firsthand, it isn't so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they're your godsend.

Colleen Hoover

#25. Borromeo also organized partial quarantines, especially for women, whom he regarded not only as more likely to occasion sin but as the primary carriers of plague (because, he said, they talked so much and constantly visited each other's houses).

Andrew Graham-Dixon

#26. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

Frank Shorter

#27. Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.

Pearl Zhu

#28. Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Laurie Anderson

#29. By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.

Pearl Zhu

#30. Persevere with a positive attitude - Michael Jordan

Sharon Hughson

#31. A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals.

Pearl Zhu

#32. Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Max McKeown

#33. In the current situation, particular attention should be given to the quality of financial and economic management. The Government and the Central Bank should have a strategic action plan

Tatyana Golikova

#34. The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

Gary Hamel

#35. Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#36. Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Laura Anne Gilman

#37. Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change.

Pearl Zhu

#38. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

Sue Tetzlaff

#39. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

Tony Dovale