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#Strategy

Translate your strategy from concepts to targets, from vague strategic intent to a set of specific time-lines.  Measure your progress along the way, with the flexibility and adaptability to pivot on a moment's notice.  

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#Strategy

Planning is really important, but it's seductive to get lost in the planning.  Getting into action generates inspiration.  Don't cop out waiting on inspiration to get you into action.  It won't.

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#Strategy

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

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#Strategic Intent

The strategic intent of your strategy is to guide behaviors.

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Metrics

It's easy enough to measure stuff.  It's much harder to figure out what you want to measure that actually matters.

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Strategic Intent

The strategic intent of your strategy is to guide behavior.

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#Strategy

Leaders should treat strategy as a 2-step process.  Step 1 is determining the right strategy.  Step 2 is communicating it in a way that allows it to become part of the organizational vocabulary.  Both steps are necessary.  Unfortunately, many organizations stop at Step 1.

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#Strategy

The first rule of strategy is that how you think shapes how you compete.

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#Strategy

Make sure the people executing your strategy had a role in formulating it.  Involvement drives ownership and ownership drives engagement.

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Scale-based Strategy

People and companies who have size advantage never really have to learn to strategize the process when they've been able to coast on brute force.  And that works for them...until it doesn't!

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