Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. - Max Mckeown
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
- Max Mckeown
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that … - Max Mckeown
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that …
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together. - Max Mckeown
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation. - Max Mckeown
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Change is inevitable, progress is not. - Max Mckeown
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
The real heart of strategy is the strategist. - Max Mckeown
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far. - Max Mckeown
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Strategy is about shaping the future. - Max Mckeown
Strategy is about shaping the future.
Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners. - Max Mckeown
Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.
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