"Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas..." - Quote by Colin Powell
Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
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“The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.”
“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
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“Vision without execution is delusion.”
“I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”
“It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.”