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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.
Oct 1, 2025
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
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