From our newsletter Outside the Lines - The Business Edition

Don’t take my word for it

Smart folk thinking out loud about being strategic.

“Strategy requires thought: tactics require observation.”
-Max Euwe, Dutch mathematician and chess champion

“The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.”
-Warren G Bennis, American academic and author

“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
-Alan Kay, American computer scientist

“Things don’t change, you change your way of looking, that’s all.”
-Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian author

“At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.”
-Larry Bossidy, American CEO

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
-Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese swordsman

“Strategy is revolution: everything else is tactics.”
-Gary Hamel, American academic and author

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