Final words to the strategist
Failing by design
Strategy is a discipline that requires practice. Allow yourself to fail. Failure is not the opposite of success; it's success in progress if we learn from it.
I call this INTELLIGENT FAILURE.
DO IT. FAIL. LEARN from your mistakes, UNLEARN wrong biases, and RELEARN new principles. REPEAT.
On a personal note, my strategy work is applied to national economies, influences GDP growth, triggers global themes, and has shaped the performance of the fastest‐growing companies. However, I have gone through many failures along the way in order to get to the successes.
The secret sauce.
The true value of strategy resides in the benefit of alignment. Align executives to see the company as it is, explore the unknown potentials together, and agree on what not to do, where to be different, and what to focus on to deliver impact.
The effect of aligning an organization on a common goal of performance and service delivery is the backbone of the organizational culture.
The core of the strategy is people
Put people before strategy. The core of any strategy is people. Companies are a sum of skills, capabilities, and competencies driven by people. They are the value of any company. Strategy is made by, delivered by, blocked by, and consumed by ...
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