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The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
The “art of strategy” is not decision making—that discipline assumes that you have been handed a list of possible actions from among which to choose. The art of strategy is not finding your one true goal and passionately pursuing it with all your heart and soul in everything you do—that is a type of mental illness called monomania. The art of strat
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Abhishek Sivaraman added 4mo ago
I EXPLORE FOUR themes in the pages that follow. First, the best way to deal with strategic issues is by squarely facing the challenge. Too many people start with goals and other visions of a desired end state. Start with the challenge, and diagnose its structure and the forces at work. Once you do that, your sense of purpose and the actions you con
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To see the issues more clearly, it is helpful to dig into the difference between deduction and design.
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There may be no clear definition of the problem itself. Studying various concepts of “the problem” and working to identify or choose a crux issue can be a large part of the work of creating a strategy.
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Abhishek Sivaraman added 4mo ago
The “art of strategy” is not decision making—that discipline assumes that you have been handed a list of possible actions from among which to choose. The art of strategy is not finding your one true goal and passionately pursuing it with all your heart and soul in everything you do—that is a type of mental illness called monomania. The art of strat
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Mastery over a gnarly challenge arises only after the crux has been exposed when you see or recognize the locus of tension in the web of conflicting desires, needs, and resources.
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Abhishek Sivaraman added 2mo ago
Clustering places problems and opportunities into groups. When I work with a team in a Strategy Foundry (see Chapter 20), each participant works on identifying a challenge. We write them on the board or on cards and collect them all—usually about twelve or so. Often, these “challenges” are each really more than one challenge, so we break them apart
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Alternatives may not be given but must be searched for or imagined.
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The connections between potential actions and actual outcomes are unclear.
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