Why planning isn't strategy
The world's leading strategy thinker dismantles the planning document, the laundry list and the myth that leaders make choices while everyone else executes.
Strategy is a connected set of choices that compels someone to act.
The currency of planning is initiatives. The currency of strategy is choices.
Manage the outcome and let capable people determine the route.
Strategy is what you do, not what you say.
Roger L. Martin
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Strategy is a connected set of choices that compels someone to act.
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