The Creative Power of Strategy as a Central Rule
Chapter 4 demonstrates that goals, plans, and metrics have a limited capacity to meet the three requirements of a solution to the killer problems of change and innovation in complex adaptive systems—free choice, real-time guidance, and unification. This chapter shows that strategy, the central rule, can meet all three. This ability makes the strategy the most powerful component of a framework for bridging the gap between what ultimately matters and what you can actually do and why adherence to the strategy rule is the key to adaptation. Let’s start by clarifying how strategy works, that is, how it functions to solve the killer problems.
How Strategy Functions
As stated in Chapter 1, a ...
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