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
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, in Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972), p. 221
Strategy
Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war?
The Bible: II Kings, 18:20
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