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There is strategy for everything. Because if you break down everything into its smallest processes there is a way to see tactics involved in getting through each milestone. Here is the secret... Your GOAL is your target. Military tactics have been the same, and have always worked.

The TARGET determines the WEAPONS which determine movement, which then determines the PEOPLE which then determines the RESOURCES.

Many more complex project management and strategies exist. All of them have greater or lesser effects in different environments mostly because the individual ability to adhere to practices like SIX SIGMA LEAN and or PMP can be a daunting gesture to adapt to each and every scenario.

This old military strategy hits the same goal. If you know your goals, can determine the milestones, then you can determine the tools you need, those you have and those you need to get, the movement it will take to get there, which then factors the people and skills you need to create the movement, which finally determines their resources. BAM! Project managed. From small to large to global the same tactics Suntzu put down in the ART OF WAR still apply today.

The also apply to all levels of your organization. Strategy is the plan that makes things happen. Not what to do when things go wrong. Strategy determines success, tactics determines how well you get through each step.

As Musashi stated in the Book of Five Rings “To know ten thousand things, know one well”