This presentation describes how a business entrepreneur unknowingly practices strategy/strategic thinking. Strategy is after all matching resources (and limited at that for start up entrepreneur) to attain an objectives. Various non quantitative non complex qualitative ideas are reviewed to prove that small business entrepreneurs practice strategy

1. Strategic Thinking by Entrepreneurs Lecture by Prof. Jorge Saguinsin at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business Makati Philippines

2. Question: Entrepreneurs do not practice/understand strategy?

3. Strategy as ordinarily understood

4. Small entrpereneurial businesses must necessarily be strategic!

8. The entrepreneur: the means to success!

9. Machiavelli “ The end justifies the means” -The Prince

10. The ends and the means…

12. Capital – capito - Head

15. Starting with very little capital

16. Cellphones are more expensive than their start up capital!

19. Von Molkte

21. Clausewitz

22. Liddell Hart – the strategy of indirect approach

23. Sun Tzu – The Art of War

24. Sun Tzu

25. Strategic Thinking Practices of Entrepreneurs

27. Michael Porter

28. Value chain

31. Kenichi Ohmae – Mind of the Strategist

33. Peter Senge – The Fifth Discipline

34. The Five Disciplines

36. Vision and My Vision Board

38. Good to Great - Jim Collins

40. Begin with the end in mind..

41. Managing by Harold Geneen

42. Business is unlike reading a book; you begin with the end and then you go back to the beginning…

43. Opportunity seeking, screening, seizing Whenever enterprises practice these, they are engaged in strategic management!

45. Ronald Pineda – Folded and Hung

46. Who now says that entrepreneur do not practice/understand strategy?

47. Lecture for Ateneo Entrepreneurship Students Presented by : Prof Jorge Saguinsin [email_address] .com