“Why?” Turns tacticians into strategists (18)

1. the strategist starts with a goal in the distant future and works backward to the present (18)

2. approfittare delle opportunità (= tactics) create dalla strategie (=long term goals)

3. Boeing had a vision and the ability to develop a strategy to achieve it; more than just a strategist he was also a creative tactician (22)

4. a key to developing successful strategies is to be aware of your strenghts and weaknesses, to know what you do well (23)

5. the ability to adapt is critical to success (26)

6. A frequently changed strategy is the same as no strategy (28). Change can be essential, but it should only be made with careful consideration and juste cause. Only when the environment shifts radically should you consider a change in fundamentals (29)

7. don’t watch the competition more than you watch yourself. We must avoid being being distracted from our strategic path by the competition (31)

8. Once you have a strategy, employing it is a matter of desire (33)

9. we stay on track with rigorous questioning of our results, both good and bad, and our ongoing decisions. If I won, was it due to luck or skill? (33)

10. Questioning yourself must become a habit, one strong enough to surmount the obstacles of overconfidence and dejection (34)

11. Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; **strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do **(36)

12. the best plans and the most devious tactics can still fail without confidence (45)

13. fantasy must be backed up by sober evaluation and calculations

14. it’s not the amount of time that really counts, it’s the quality of study and how you use your time (80)

15. the keys to great preparation are self-awareness and consistency. Steady effort pays off tangible way. (71)

16. question the status quo all the times, especially when things are going well. You must train yourself to want** to do it better** even when things go right (135)

17. we all need a regular diet of change as well a healthy nervous energy to maintain our defenses (149)

18. Success comes from balancing together management and vision, strategy and tactics, planning and reaction; the only consistent method for achieving such a balance is to constantly seek to avoid our comfort zone (167).

19. Always push yourself to new challenges (168). When we regularly challenge ourselves with something new, even something not obviously related to our immediate goals, we build cognitive and emotional “muscles” that make us more effective in every way. If we overcome our fear of speaking in public, or of submitting a poem to a magazine, or learning a new language, confidence will flow into every area of our lives (170)