Strategy & Project Management
Being the best is the art of the employing strategy as a means to gain the objective of competition. B.H. Liddell Hart in his book, Strategy, details classical approaches to success. Below is a brief overview of Harts thoughts on "The Concentrated Essence of Strategy and Tactics"
Strategy - Opportunities
- Adjust your end to your means
- Keep your object always in mind
- Choose the line (or course) of least expectation
- Exploit the line of least resistance
- Take a line of operation which offers alternative objectives
- Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible - adaptable to circumstances
The best teams manage risk and opportunities even better
Strategy - Threats
- Do not throw your weight into a stroke whilst your opponent is on guard
- Do not renew an attack along the same line (or in the same form) after it has once failed
These principles are vague enough to be dangerous or inspiring enough to make break ceilings and barriers.
Cheers,
Jerdon Johnston
Flexible, end-to-end analytics for startups and small teams.
7 年I really like the parts about flexibility! That's number 1 in my book. The note about minimizing expectation troubles me. Maybe I'm missing something - I'm all about controlling expectations, but I don't see a need to minimize them per-se. In fact, you should maximize them within the bounds of what you can deliver on, otherwise you'll never get support for the project, right?