Mintzberg identifies 5 definitions of strategy: 1. Plan - a consciously intended course of action to deal with a situation. Strategies as plans are made in advance and developed purposefully. 2. Ploy - a specific maneuver intended to outwit opponents or competitors. 3. Pattern - a pattern in a stream of actions, the resulting behavior whether intended or not. Plans may go unrealized while patterns may emerge without intention. 4. Position - a means of locating an organization in its environment, the mediating force between an organization and its context. 5. Perspective - a shared way of perceiving the world among organizational members, either through shared intentions or actions