In Defense of Strategy
Good strategy is coherent action backed up by an argument, an effective mixture of thought and action with a basic underlying structure I call the kernel.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
26: distinguish good strategy vs meh strategyGood: all about connecting the dots to get people from a to bIf you are given a metric, you have to get every artifact you have and match it to that goal.
Pay close attention to assumptions you are making unknowingly- look for confusion in people when you explain
33: when you start at a new company and wor... See more
Pay close attention to assumptions you are making unknowingly- look for confusion in people when you explain
33: when you start at a new company and wor... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more
There has been a lot of ink spilled on the inner logic of competitive strategy and on the mechanics of advantage. But the essential difficulty in creating strategy is not logical; it is choice itself. Strategy does not eliminate scarcity and its consequence—the necessity of choice. Strategy is scarcity’s child and to have a strategy, rather than va
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