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The Advantage:
…more than any word in the business lexicon, strategy is one of the most widely employed and poorly defined.
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The Advantage:
An organization’s strategy is nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.
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The Advantage:
…an organization’s strategic anchors should change whenever its competitive landscape shifts and market conditions call for a different approach.
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The Advantage:
…every organization, if it wants to create a sense of alignment and focus, must have a single top priority within a given period of time.
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The Advantage:
…a crisis… is a rallying cry, a single area of focus around which there is no confusion or disagreement.
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The Advantage:
…too many leaders come to meetings with the unspoken assumption that they are there to lobby for or defend their constituents.
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The Advantage:
…every thematic goal must become the collective responsibility of the leadership team.
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The Advantage:
…it is the lack of a defined, compelling rallying cry or thematic goal that allows most bad staff meetings to happen, which enables poor decision making.
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The Advantage:
…few leadership teams need more than fifteen minutes to identify and agree on their standard operating objectives, which are already a big part of their daily focus.
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The Advantage:
…the purpose of having a thematic goal is not to restrict the organization’s flexibility but rather to rally its leaders around what they decide they want to achieve.
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