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Over the years I have seen so many leaders end the year frustrated and tired that, after all their effort, there is little or no result. Despite the hours of meetings and conversations, the late nights, the early mornings, and all the thinking that was applied to figure out how to get the work done, nothing happened.
In his book, Rumsfeld’s Rules, Donald Rumsfeld defines strategy as “a general plan of action fashioned to achieve a major goal. It is the process by which goals are prioritized and...
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The crux of most failed strategies and strategic planning sessions is the emphasis on “how” before the “what” is even clear. We rush off to solutions before we are clear on the opportunity or challenge we are trying to solve.
This is an epidemic of thinking in leaders I have worked with over the last decad...
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