Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
Everyone has their own approach to how they work.