India, Sept. 27 -- A literature survey on strategy, be it personal, group, or institutional, has been attempted multiple times since the period when such literature was first recognised to exist. Various schools of thought have been marked, debated, and accepted or rejected. This has given rise to various schools of thought, from the passivist approach to the activist approach. Indeed, to have a strategy is considered basic to the act of survival, and everyone practices some strategy at some level, irrespective of the size of the institution or the stature of the individual. This is not the place to get into the lengthy literature survey of what is available, as such an effort would literally take thousands of man-hours.

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