Directions & Destinations
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Directions & Destinations
- Strategy’s nature is simple unchanging
- Strategy is about ends (goals), ways (actions) means (resources), and assumption
- Strategy is about creating new futures
- Strategy derives its value in direct proportion to the consequences it createS
- Strategy needs knowledge and analysis as its key input
- Strategy’s real work behind when assumptions and predictions
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
In all cases, strategy is the process of confronting and solving critical challenges. I emphasize this because there is a widespread misconception that a business strategy is some sort of long-range sketch of a desired destination. I encourage you to think of strategy as a journey through, over, and around a sequence of challenges.
Richard P. Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
In the almost five years that I’ve been leading CPI ANZ, we’ve never had a “strategic plan.”
Each year, at the beginning of the year, I write a “CPI ANZ vision” which I share with the board. But I’ve been resistant to developing the more traditional 2-5 year strategic plan. And I’ve been thinking about why.
The reason is because most strategic plans
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