Glasgow, United Kingdom

Strategy and Organisation

Language: English Studies in English
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.strath.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Strategy
Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art of the general", which included several subsets of skills including "tactics", siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century CE in East Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century. From then until the 20th century, the word "strategy" came to denote "a comprehensive way to try to pursue political ends, including the threat or actual use of force, in a dialectic of wills" in a military conflict, in which both adversaries interact.
Strategy
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter, "What is strategy?." In: Harvard Business Review, November (1996). p. 70
Strategy
Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war?
The Bible: II Kings, 18:20
Strategy
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (6th c. BC), Ch. 6
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