Strategy (from Greek στρατηγίαstratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general or high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. It involves determining goals to aim for, determining actions to achieve them, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions. Strategies indicate how the ends (goals) can be achieved by the means (resources) available, and can be very rigid and fixed, or malleable, evolving and emerging as patterns of activity as groups and individuals adapt to their environment or compete.
Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, "On Strategy" (1871), as translated inMoltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings (1993) by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, p. 124
Variant: Strategy is a system of expedients. It is more than science, it is the translation of science into practical life, the development of an original leading thought in accordance with the ever-changing circumstances.
As quoted inGovernment and the War (1918) by Spenser Wilkinson
Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual
Gordon Pask, inLearning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972), p. 221
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is itHomer nods, but we that dream.
Implementation, not strategy, is what usually separates winners from losers in most industries, and generally explains the difference between success and failure
Gregory Zuckerman:The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. Penguin Publishing Group. 2019. p. 312.ISBN 978-0-7352-1798-0.
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