Four Strategic Mistakes.

alignment with strategy, leadership, and organizational design.

If you simply develop a strategy “out of thin air”, without observing the tendencies of your business as it is, even if the idea is brilliant in the abstract it will probably fail because it won’t match the company you have. In my experience you cannot really “change” a business from one thing to another; all you can really do is focus and intensif

At the core, strategy is about focus, and most complex organizations don’t focus their resources. Instead, they pursue multiple goals at once, not concentrating enough resources to achieve a breakthrough in any of them.”

we always hope that a brilliant insight or very clever design will allow us to accomplish several apparently conflicting objectives with a single stroke, and occasionally we are vouchsafed this kind of deliverance. Nevertheless, strategy is primarily about deciding what is truly important and focusing resources and action on that objective. It is a