Becoming a Strategist (Part 1)
The purpose of good strategy is to offer a potentially achievable way of surmounting a key challenge.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Effective strategy emerges out of an exploration of challenges, ambitions, resources, and competition. By confronting the situation actually being faced, a talented leader creates a strategy to further some elements out of the whole bundle of ambitions.
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
A good strategy does more than urge us forward toward a goal or vision. A good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcoming them.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
To be a strategist you will need to embrace the full complex and confusing force of the challenges and opportunities you face. To be a strategist you will have to develop a sense for the crux of the problem—the place where a commitment to action will have the best chance of surmounting the most critical obstacles. To be a strategist you will need p
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