Quotes About Strategy And Execution

#1. Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

Pearl Zhu

#2. My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

Uday Kotak

#3. Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Maynard James Keenan

#4. Capabilities are the link between strategy and execution.

Paul Leinwand

#5. The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

Chuck Martin

#6. The three processes - people, strategy, and operations - remain the building blocks and heart of good execution.

Ram Charan

#7. Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Stephen Covey

#8. Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

#9. We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

Azim Premji

#10. Capability-based strategy-execution is the only path leading to a sustainable digital transformation.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.

Kevin Kelly

#12. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

Colin Powell

#13. Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Stephen Covey

#14. Strategic execution always solves problems

Edwin Dearborn

#15. Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

Stephen Covey

#16. Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.

Archibald Marwizi

#17. What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.

Walter Kiechel

#18. The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

Steve Ballmer

#19. Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Robert S. Kaplan

#20. Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Peter F. Drucker

#21. Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

Lawrence Bossidy

#22. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#23. The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the "timely execution.

Pearl Zhu

#24. A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#25. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Vaughan

#26. The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

Andrew Zolli

#27. 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

#28. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Bill Gates

#29. Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#30. What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.

Gary Vaynerchuk