Strategy
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compo
Questions to ask
1. Strategy isn’t a plan.
2. It’s a provocation.
3. A story about a future you’re willing to bet on.
4. It’s not prediction.
5. It’s preparation.
6. Slide decks don’t move people.
7. Artifacts do.
8. Prototypes do.
9. Worlds implied and imbued in an implication of a thing you can see, touch, and test.
10. When I try to make sense of an idea I have, one that... See more
2. It’s a provocation.
3. A story about a future you’re willing to bet on.
4. It’s not prediction.
5. It’s preparation.
6. Slide decks don’t move people.
7. Artifacts do.
8. Prototypes do.
9. Worlds implied and imbued in an implication of a thing you can see, touch, and test.
10. When I try to make sense of an idea I have, one that... See more
Strategy Is Not A Plan
your product isn’t finished when it works. it’s finished when people want to wear the hoodie