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is (in the case of devising a strategy or understanding another person's strategy) is akin to making sense of the world.

Devising a strategy (or understanding another person's stratgy) is akin to making sense of the wold: The only way is to cut through the complexity and assume that things are much simpler than you know them to be' (Bailey 2001:(around or after 85).

is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results. Winston Churchill

is an institution or structure of power (producers). Tactics are the movements or shortcuts of consumers which are never fully determined by organizing structures.

from wikipedia: 'Certeau links 'strategies' with institutions and structures of power who are the 'producers', while individuals are 'consumers' acting in environments defined by strategies by using 'tactics'. In the influential chapter 'Walking in the City', Certeau asserts that 'the city' is generated by the strategies of governments, corporations, and other institutional bodies who produce things like maps that describe the city as a unified whole. Certeau uses the vantage from the World Trade Center in New York to illustrate the idea of a synoptic, unified view. By contrast, the walker at street level moves in ways that are tactical and never fully determined by the plans of organizing bodies, taking shortcuts in spite of the strategic grid of the streets. This concretely illustrates Certeau's argument that everyday life works by a process of poaching on the territory of others, using the rules and products that already exist in culture in a way that is influenced, but never wholly determined, by those rules and products.'

is based on assumptions that can be systematically tested as quickly as possible and without losing sight of the company's overall vision.

Every business plan begins with a set of assumptions. It lays out a strategy that takes those assumptions as a given and proceeds to show how to achieve the company's vision. Because the assumptions haven't been proved to be true (they are assumptions, after all) and in fact are often erroneous, the goal of a startup's early efforts should be to test them as quickly as possible. What traditional business strategy excels at is helping managers identify clearly what assumptions are being made in a particular business. The first challenge for an entrepreneur is to build an organization that can test these assumptions systematically. The second challenge, as in all entrepreneurial situations, is to perform that rigorous testing without losing sight of the company's overall vision.

is defined by the choice of 'winning solutions', whereby the point is to render the struggle impossible for the opponent.

So strategy is defined by the choice of winning solutions' (Foucault 1982:793)

is either a means employed to attain an end, or the manner in which one acts with regard to what one thinks of the other actors, or the procedure used to deprive opponent of his means.

The word 'strategy' is currently employed in three ways. First, to designate the means employed to attain a certain end... it is a questionof rationality functioning to arrive at an objective. Second, to designate the manner in which a partner in a certain game acts with regard to what he thinks should be the action of the other and what he considers the others think to be his own.... it is the way in which one seeks to have the advantage over others. Third, to designate the procedures used in a situation of confrontation to deprive the opponent of his means of combat and to reduce him to giving up the struggle... it is a question, therefore, of the means destined to obtain victory' (Foucault 1982:793)

Strategy is figuring out what not to do. Steve Jobs

is formed when enough coherence is established between a certain set of objects, concepts and enunciations such that it can function as a discourse able to permit or exclude particular statements.

Formed when there is a sufficient degree of coherence between a certain regrouping of objects, certain types of enunciation and a certain organisation of concepts. This whole group of relations forms a principle of determination that permits or excludes, within a given discourse, a certain number of statements.

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