‘Strategy is the very human act of imagination’
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‘Strategy is the very human act of imagination’
If we’re to resist the gravity well of banality, extract ourselves from of the containers of the past, escape the stifling grip of pre-packaged thinking, refuse to be complicit in the astro-turfing of culture, and create better, desired futures rather than merely slipstream into default ones, then what we really need is imagination. And the recogni... See more
martin weigel • Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel
Despite the roar of voices wanting to equate strategy with ambition, leadership, “vision,” planning, or the economic logic of competition, strategy is none of these. 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.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
vision. A good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcoming them. And the greater the challenge, the more a good strategy focuses and coordinates efforts to achieve a powerful competitive punch
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
A Plan Is Not a Strategy
youtube.comThe key to being a great strategist is imagination — not analysis. This gets back to the advice from Aristotle: imagine possibilities and choose the one for which the most compelling argument can be made.