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Competitive Assessment

Here's a good question to ask at your next executive level staff meeting: "What did our competition try, and why did it work."  Look for the little things that made a big difference.

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Silver Bullet Solutions

There are no silver bullets.  Therefore, you're going to have to use a lot of lead bullets.

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Post-Operational Debrief

A post-operational debrief examines all phases of an operation from planning through execution, in a concise format.  What went right?  What went wrong?  How can we adapt our tactics to make us even more effective and increase our advantage over the competition?

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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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