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“Notable Quotes”

"If you’re not faster than your competitor, you’re in a "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."
tenuous position, and if you’re only half as fast, you’re —George Patton
terminal."
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor
—George Salk
the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
"The opportunities and threats existing in any situation change."
always exceed the resources needed to exploit the —Charles Darwin
opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is
"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant
essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy
sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map."
is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources
—Wayne Calloway
against a decisive opportunity."
—William Cohen
"Organizations pursue strategies that will disrupt the
normal course of industry events and forge new industry
conditions to the disadvantage of competitors."
—Ian C. Macmillan

Assurance of Learning
Exercise 3E
Developing a Competitive
Profile Matrix for My
University