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Different vs. Better

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. 

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Priority Shift

Priorities can and will rapidly shift and change.  When this happens, communication of that shift to the rest of your team, both up and down the chain of command is crucial.  The team must have the ability to quickly reprioritize efforts and rapidly adapt to a constantly changing competitive landscape. 

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Data

In our data-driven world, we tend to overvalue numbers and undervalue anything ephemeral, soft, and difficult to quantify.  Just because you can measure something doesn't mean it's the most important thing.  And just because you can't measure something doesn't mean it's not important at all.

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#Risk

Understanding risk allows you to more accurately value the risk - and lets be clear, there's always risk.

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#Leaders Drive Strategy

Leaders can almost never spend enough time on strategy.  They must constantly be working to shape it, refine it, communicate it, reinforce it, and help people recognize when they may be drifting from it.

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#Strategy Choices

Does your organization have a disciplined system in place to direct and guide your hard choices?

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#Strategy Focus

Sharpen the focus of your strategy and you will make your strategy more executable.

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Strategy

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.  Therefore, the essence of execution is truly not doing it.

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Differentiate or Die

If there is no significant difference between you and your competitors, you are essentially in a stalemate, until one of you finds a way to differentiate yourself.

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#Data

Take advantage of patterns in the data.  That's where the opportunities reside.

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