Quotes of: Tactical Keyword

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Herman Gorter

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

Brian Clough

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Tommy Lee Jones

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tacti...

Robert Bresson

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power...

John Berger

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Carlos Ghosn

My tactic is to make eyes at someone.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Somewhere along the line, Made in China began to sound like a bargain. (...) When an importer told a retail buyer that an item was quoted at 65¢ and made in the USA, the buyer figured it could be purchased somewhere cheaper. When the same product wa...

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

Even still, it wasn't over. For if a battle could be won so easily, men would soon forget its horrors and clamor for it all the more. War would come more than once or twice a generation. Easy victories would produce men who were struck dumb with thei...

Wald Vengeance

Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

Natalie Dormer

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Christopher Hitchens

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Michael Bergdahl