Top 40 Strategy Management Quotes
#1. The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.
Pearl Zhu
#2. Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation.
Pearl Zhu
#3. The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the "timely execution.
Pearl Zhu
#4. Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
Dilip Bathija
#5. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
Bill Ackman
#7. Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.
Paul Gibbons
#8. In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?
Bruce Feiler
#9. Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.
Paul Gibbons
#10. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
Max McKeown
#11. Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.
Michael Porter
#12. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.
Paul Gibbons
#13. Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song.
Dilip Bathija
#14. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
Max McKeown
#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. An organization has integrity - is healthy - when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.
Patrick Lencioni
#17. Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
Paul Gibbons
#19. It is time to euthanize change management.
Paul Gibbons
#20. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
Anthony Noto
#21. Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.
Robert S. Kaplan
#22. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.
Anna Stevens
#23. In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#24. As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
Sanjay Kumar
#25. Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.
William C. Brown
#26. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#27. 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
#29. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement. That means aligning sales coverage with opportunity and creating straightforward sales "plays" for each type of opportunity.
McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum
#30. Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
Max McKeown
#31. The scoreboard is strategy focused, and the dashboard is operation oriented.
Pearl Zhu
#32. Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.
Romain Grosjean
#33. management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.
Patrick Lencioni
#34. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.
Tony Dovale
#36. When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
Jack McDevitt
#37. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#38. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.
Paul Gibbons
#39. 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
#40. Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
Pearl Zhu
