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A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge?
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…it is very hard to lead an organization out of the valley of death without a clear and simple strategic direction.
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If competition is chasing you (and they always are – this is why ‘only the paranoid survive’), you only get out of the valley of death by outrunning the people who are after you.
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…you can only outrun [your competition] if you commit yourself to a particular direction and go as fast as you can.
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Without exquisite focus, the resources and energy of the organization will be spread a mile wide – and they will be an inch deep.
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If you’re wrong, you will die. But most companies don’t die because they are wrong: most die because they don’t commit themselves.
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When a company is meandering, its management staff is demoralized. When management staff is demoralized, nothing works: Every employee feels paralyzed.
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…you need to have a strong leader setting a direction. And it doesn’t even have to be the best direction – just a strong, clear one.
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…to lead your organization out of the resulting ambiguity [of a strategic inflection point] and to energize your staff toward a new direction, you must rein in chaos.
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…you need to find a way to project your determination, will and vision over a distance, much as the forces of a strong magnet affect iron filings.
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