Strategic Vision Quotes

• I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

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  William Morris

  Real   Commitment   Thinking  

  5118

• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

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  Garry Kasparov

  Moving   Player   Vision  

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  355

• 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

• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

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  Peter Drucker

  Leadership   Future Leaders   Great Leader  

  2407

• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

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  Ralph Abernathy

  Change   Successful   Competition  

  3565

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

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  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational   Leadership   Basketball  

  2349

• The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

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  Carly Fiorina

  Vision   Important   Looks  

  1502

• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

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  David Gergen

  Inspirational   Leadership   People  

  1599

• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational   Inspiring   Leadership  

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

  2247

• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

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  Garry Kasparov

  Worst Enemy   Play   Clouds  

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  4753

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  600

• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership   Business   Blow  

  2059

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

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  John Naisbitt

  Business   Vision   Firsts  

  4289