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It’s often straightforward to identify a strategy needed to achieve a goal, but what trips up companies is figuring out how to execute the strategy once identified.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
strategy is primarily about deciding what is truly important and focusing resources and action on that objective. It is a hard discipline because focusing on one thing slights another.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Effective strategy is about making a move and being prepared to launch another series of moves based on how the market or your competition reacts. You must think beyond your first strike to execute an effective strategy. When you start to get really good, you anticipate how others will react and can deploy a series of moves that are nearly impossib
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Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. Adding something is easy. But removing something is hard, because it requires conviction. It’s easier to hedge against uncertainty, entertain multiple paths, and dilute your focus than to develop a strong opinion about what to exclude.
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the core of strategy work is always the same: discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions to deal with those factors
Your strategy (probably) sucks
And what is strategy? Strategy is anything that leaves employees nowhere to hide when they’re explaining their choices.
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craft your positioning entirely on your strategy and not your execution. Barely mention the latter, don’t feature it on your web site, and don’t give it any prominence in your presentations. Quit hiding behind the things your hands do and learn to stand naked
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
I’m sure you’ve heard people say something along the lines of “strategy is about deciding what not to do”, and this is a variant of that. We’ll talk more about the power of sacrificing market position later on, but for now let it suffice to say that you simply need to stop looking at things through a competitive lens. Stop thinking of your competit
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