ˈstradəjē/
noun
- a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim."time to develop a coherent economic strategy"
- synonyms: master plan, grand design, game plan, plan (of action), action plan,policy, program; Morethe art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle.
Before we embark on a mission it is crucial to have a strategy. Weigh all the options before we make decisions that will have future implications. For this blog post please research a strategic figure of your choice and describe one instance in which a decision they made changed the course of history. For better or worse.
Please reply with a paragraph or two briefly summarizing a historical strategic figure of your choice. Why did you choose that person? What was their contribution to history? What made their decision controversial and how did it change history.
Include a link to your source.
In 2013, Nick D’Aloisio created a smartphone app, Summly, which uses artificial intelligence to summarize news articles. At 17, he sold the app to Yahoo for 30 million dollars and was hired by the company as a full time employer. D’Aloisio isn’t a conventional historical figure, but I believe he impacted the world. For one, he created an extremely complex artificial intelligence system that is bound to influence future systems. I chose D’Aloisio as my subject because he has proven that age doesn’t necessarily hinder people from making monumental accomplishments. It is encouraging to know that a young person has the capabilities and resources to do what D’Aloisio did.
ReplyDeleteBill Gates is one of, if not the most successful entrepreneur of the 20th century. In just 25 years, he built a two-man operation into a multibillion-dollar colossus and made himself the richest man in the world along the way. Yet he accomplished this feat not by inventing new technology, but by taking existing technology, adapting it to a specific market, and then dominating that market through innovative promotion and cunning business savvy.
ReplyDeleteRather than merely innovating or dreaming, Gates made a successful attempt towards changing software and the future. He and his partner Paul Allen wrote the first version of Microsoft BASIC, quitting Harvard and moving to New Mexico to work with the company, named MITS, hoping to make Microsoft BASIC an industry standard. Then after a partnership with IBM became successful, MS-DOS became the standard operating system for the industry, and Microsoft's sales soared from $7 million in 1980 to $16 million in 1981. Later on, Microsoft solidified its dominance in the mid-1990s by combining Windows with its other applications and persuading leading computer makers to preload their software on every computer they sold. The strategy worked so well that by 1999 Microsoft was posting sales of $19.7 billion, and Gates' personal wealth had grown to a phenomenal $90 billion. But with Gates’ success, has come scrutiny as Microsoft's competitors have complained that the company uses its operating system monopoly to halt the development of new technology.
Bill Gates is the perfect example of no dream being too small. And this inspiration is why I choose him. If you don’t give up on your ideas, and continue to develop it further, maybe you will end up making a breakthrough and changing the world like Bill Gates. You won’t become an overnight billionaire like he did, but who said that you couldn’t try and start small. As long as you have the determination, tools, and a strategy at hand, you can accomplish anything.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197526
Gloria Steinem is one of the greatest women that could have possibly ever lived, of course in my opinion that is. Steinem was a pioneer for modern feminism and paved the way so that I can have it easier than she did when she was growing up. She vehemently pushed for women's rights and lead the movement that revolutionized America during the late sixties and early seventies. Without her, there probably would be no planned parenthood, women would still be stay at home moms and forced to bare babies and have no life outside of their husbands. In order to get people revved up about the feminist agenda, Gloria turned to her pen and wrote a shocking expose about Hugh Heffner's exploitation of women in the playboy mansion. Women and men were shocked to hear what was occurring in the mansion. Through Gloria Steinem, women realized that they did not have to be lifeless and live only for their husbands and children and for that many American women should thank her.
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Strategy is really about trying to work out in a sensible way how to get from one stage to the next. With each stage a new set of problems that has to be negotiated before you move beyond it. There is no end point. Strategy is not better word for a plan, something that moves you forwards in predetermined steps. As Helmuth von Moltke, a 19th-century German field-marshal, had said, “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Or Mike Tyson, who proves the point further: “Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth.”
ReplyDelete"A strategy that starts with objectives and works backwards is one that is likely to fail." ~Anonymous
This is why I always go with the flow. Life loves to throw your plans into the gutter. You'd have to be God or a god or fate itself to have a plan go exactly as you pictured it. In other words, you have to have power in order to make things go your way but that's not foolproof either. You also have to take into account just about ANYTHING that can turn your plan upside down, other people's goals, attributes, and what they could possibly do to make your plan go in a totally different direction.
Therefore, strategy is just a word to make you feel like your plan can go your way but in reality, winging it and luck is what gets you places...sometimes.
Terrific Sofia. Or as Leonard Bernstein, the famous conductor/composer once said, "To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=384371
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ReplyDeleteA famous strategist in history was Joan of Arc. I chose to write about Joan because she was a strong female warrior who greatly impacted European history and the world. She rallied the French and led them in battle against the opressive English military. She was a controversial figure, because of the obvious fact that she was a woman, and her reported "visions". Joan believed that God was telling her to defeat the British forces. As a primary leader within the French forces who fought alongsidde men, Joan had to use strategy in combat and in politics.
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Strategy is very important. I don't have a specific historical strategic figure but generally it would be business people. Strategic planning is very important in the business world for their company to succeed. How they use there creativity and come up with their ideas is really amazing. They really teach me to think outside-of-the-box and that there is no bad idea.
ReplyDeleteI always play various strategy games to make me better at it. I think it is very important to all have strategy skill because I think it helps makes life easier and better. You would never know when you need the skill, it could help you one day just in case. In the future, during your career, they'll may be a time when there is a crisis situation in you job when you need to strategize a solution to solve the problem. In college, I would like to major in business and if I have the strong strategy skill, my future company would be successful.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had amazing strategy. He took advantage of the democratic majority in congress and passed all of his agenda. Having a strategy is very important. I chose him because he was a great leader and did great things for this country.
ReplyDeleteI also have to have a strategy for my Civilization 5 game. If you don't have a strategy you will never win.
The leader I chose was Adolf Hitler
ReplyDeleteThough Hitler was a horrible man, who was the orchestrator of the Holocaust during WW2, he was, in a sense, a good leader. He took advantage of the lenience of the UN and ended up conquering a very large portion of eastern europe and North Africa. In WW2 he made powerful alliances and was beating Britain, France, and their allies for the majority of the war. It wasn't until the end that they were finally defeated. He used his charisma to convince the Germans of his psychotic views and his strategic war plans helped him almost win the war. I chose him because I knew no one would choose a leader who was associated with hate, and strategically, he was a good leader.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler