Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
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Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategic thinking, in its purest form, is the process of considering “what could be true.” Strategy is the art of the possible. What new mental model would have to be invented for this to work? What if people moved from the way it is, to a new, different way? What if a new outcome (an outcome we haven’t considered before) was possible?
Category Pirates, Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, Katrina Kirsch, • The 22 Laws of Category Design
Kaustubh Sule added
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If we’re going to talk about ‘the future of strategy’ then we are going to have to talk about how relegating strategy to the supply of disposable ‘insights’ and ‘propositions’ for other people’s creative processes is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of strategy.
‘Strategy is the very human act of imagination’
sari added
Hence I turned to next factor which was doctrine or the standard ways of operating. This I thought would be easy as it’s just the good practice of business. I started looking into operational strategy and it was during that time another one of those blindingly obvious questions hit me. I was reading up on the great and good of business, those wise ... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
cássius carvalho added
“A good strategy is, in the end, a hypothesis about what will work.”
— Michael Porter
Lenny Rachitsky • Getting better at product strategy
Sarah Wong and added
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.