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Strategic Management Quotes

“Although some organizations today may survive and prosper because they have intu- itive geniuses managing them, most are not so fortunate. Most organizations can benefit from strategic management, which is based upon integrating intuition and analysis in decision making. Choosing an intuitive or analytic approach to decision making is not an either–or proposition. Managers at all levels in an organization inject their intuition and judgment into strategic-management analyses. Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking complement each other. Operating from the I’ve-already-made-up-my-mind-don’t-bother-me-with-the-facts mode is not management by intuition; it is management by ignorance. Drucker says, “I believe in intuition only if you discipline it. ‘Hunch’ artists, who make a diagnosis but don’t check it out with the facts, are the ones in medicine who kill people, and in management kill businesses.”

“A clear mission statement describes the values and priorities of an organization. Developing a mission statement compels strategists to think about the nature and scope of present operations and to assess the potential attractiveness of future markets and activities. A mission statement broadly charts the future direction of an organization. A mission statement is a constant reminder to its employees of why the organization exists and what the founders envisioned when they put their fame and fortune at risk to breathe life into their dreams.”

“In the context of strategic human resources development, strategies may seem a lot more like an idiosyncrasy rather than a pragmatic instrument. But the challenge is in spinning the wheels of these strategies into motion and studying the consequence which assuredly would lead to some development and not necessarily a failure. Dexterous and expert integration of strategic management and human resource management pops up as the key in this context to unlocking the uncertainties of a devised human resource strategy.”

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

“Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.”