"The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution."
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"Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services."
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"A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling."
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"The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you."
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"It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies."
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"There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy."
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"If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them."
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"There are not many things you can do to make the car go faster at some racetracks. What you got from the shop is just how you're going to race. It's really about strategy."
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"Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route."
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"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."
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"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy"
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"We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?"
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"All good strategy eventually degenerates into work."
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"My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be."
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"Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission."
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"The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down."
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"I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months."
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"The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you."
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"Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made."
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"Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy."
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