Strategic Vision Quotes:

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

- John Naisbitt

topic: Business, Vision, Firsts, Strategic Planning, Strategic Vision

The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

- Carly Fiorina

topic: Vision, Important, Looks, Strategic Vision, Peripheral Vision

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

- David Gergen

topic: People, Leader, Vision, Mission And Vision, Leadership And Vision

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Clouds, Play, Enemy, Strategic Vision, Reflexes

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Believe, People, Leader, True Leader, Leadership And Vision

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

- Garry Kasparov

source: Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Moving, Player, Vision, Strategic Vision

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

- Ralph Abernathy

topic: Change, Successful, Competition, Strategic, Strategic Vision

I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

- William Morris

topic: Real, Commitment, Thinking, Strategic Vision