Reactive Strategy Quotes

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

He's running for weather vane: he's got to see which way the wind is blowing to decide his position.]

When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

I'll continue to take what the defense gives me. That's the way that I've always played.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.