Are you playing out the scenerios?
If you don’t have a model of your business over 12 months…
If you can’t translate the strategic direction to a 12-month set of scenarios, it is really hard to have a meaningful conversation about the probability of success, the risk of error, the capability to deliver, and the redundancy within the team to execute.
The key to good strategy is focus.
Focus requires clarity.
Clarity requires modeling.
The Model translates the strategic thoughts to financials, customer mix, product/service mix, process capability, and resource competency and allocation.
Twisting and turning the model drives the conversation – friction, creative abraision, and positive conflict are all part of the value creation.
Reflective listening, curiosity, and firm opinions held lightly drive the content and the colour.
Radical Candour is required.
It is the collision of ideas in service of getting it right (not being right) that matters.
Psychological safety is the foundation.
And this is all built on a foundation of trust. Trust that we’re fully present in service of getting it less wrong faster.
We will not have artificial harmony and malicious compliance. We will leave our session aligned, focused, committed, and accountable to the plan.
And we can rely on our strategic rhythm – 2 days a quarter, 1/2 day a month, one hour a week – to reassess our assumptions.
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We live it, we’re invested in it in our portfolio of companies, and we facilitate it for others through our 12-month Strategic Cohorts for Small Businesses at Levership.
