Midjourney prompt: tiny fishing boat in an ocean, storm, lightning, dark clouds, big waves.

What Does It Mean to Be Strategic?

The practice of connecting intentions to outcomes

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Shadman Rahman over 2 years ago

What an amazing read! Highly recommended!

Great article, especially these two passages...

"A strategic bandaid looks suspiciously like an oxymoron."

"One of the most common mistakes a strategist can make is to presume that they get to “make strategy.” They may produce a sleek artifact (it usually looks like a slide deck or a doc) that looks like strategy."

I did my best in attempting to define strategy here: https://wiljr.org/2022/04/25/what-is-strategy/

John Caswell over 2 years ago

Great article! Well observed and clearly properly experienced in the real world!

Jazzy Quest14 over 2 years ago

Great article. I'm going to use this to frame a conversation in the coming week!

Alon Rozen over 2 years ago

Wonderful article - the helicopter view is perfect, the zoom in is great contextualization, the metaphors are memorable and the visuals really help to capture the essential with a minimum of words. Simple, effective, memorable, actionable, what's not to like?!