Strategic Planning Quotes

• Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

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  Thomas A. Edison

  Technique   Planning   Process  

  1132

• We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

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  Herb Kelleher

  Inspirational   Business   Hipster  

  1793

• If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

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  Sun Tzu

  Military   Art Of War   Warrior  

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

  3220

• In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

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  Brian Tracy

  Integrity   Caring   Numbers  

  Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

  991

• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership   Blow   Common Vision  

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

  4453

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

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  Kenichi Ohmae

  Purpose   Gains   Planning  

  2435

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

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  Henry Mintzberg

  Real   Thinking   Numbers  

  Attributed to Henry Mintzberg in C. W. Cook, P. L. Hunsaker "Management and organizational behavior" (p. 58), 2001.

  2643

• Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who focus on a company's health coverage to stay up-to-speed on what's happening, and it's important for those in the C-suite to understand the changes to factor these new variables into their strategic planning calculus.

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  John E. McDonough

  Organization   Focus   Important  

  Source: sponsored.bostonglobe.com

  3338

• While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

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  Douglas MacArthur

  War   Men   Political  

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

  2348

• 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 efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

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  Peter Drucker

  Expectations   Effort   Decision  

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

  3066

• Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading   Speaks Out   Fool  

  3632

• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

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  George S. Patton

  Motivational   Business   Military  

  1971

• 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 be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

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  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains   Would Be   Needs  

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

  4261

• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

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  William H. Hastie

  Hopeful   Planning   Social  

  1539

• Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

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  Patrick Lencioni

  Thinking   Marketing   Looks  

  332

• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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  Larry Elder

  Inspirational   Success   Uplifting  

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

  4281

• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

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  George S. Patton

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  4544

• Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

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  John Naisbitt

  Business   Vision   Firsts  

  4289

• Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

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  Harold Kerzner

  Maturity   Planning   Management  

  2486