Strategy is ubiquitous . It can be found at the highest levels of corporate, governmental, military and organizational endeavor and in small, medium and large units. It is used to define the basis for competition and it can give rise to collaboration and cooperation. It can even be found guiding and explaining individual initiative. It is everywhere.
Strategy is an abstraction , a construct.
It has no concrete form or substance. At best it can be communicated in words and diagrams. Strategy is the art of the general . It is broad, long range and far reaching. In part, it is about the preparations made before battle, before the enemy is engaged.