Kernel of Strategy (diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action)

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Lenny’s Podcast100 min

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt · Jan 21, 2024

Key learnings

Treat strategy as a response to one or two real challenges, not a list of ambitions, priorities, or aspirations; Rumelt suggests…
A solid strategy has three parts: a diagnosis of the situation, a guiding policy for dealing with it, and coherent actions that…
Test your strategy for bad signs: goals dressed up as strategy, fluffy jargon, missing diagnosis, and actions that contradict one…

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