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What if your strategy could talk back?
Strategy Lee Crumbaugh Strategy Lee Crumbaugh

What if your strategy could talk back?

Good strategic thinking needs more than answers. It needs good questions. Over time.

What are you assuming? What might you be missing? Does your strategy really address the goal? What would have to be true for this to work?

Many strategies never get questioned. They are written, approved, and then left alone, as if putting them down settled the matter.

A strategy that could actually talk back, that continued to push on your assumptions instead of sitting quietly where you left it, would catch what a perfectly written plan never will: the moment it stopped being right.

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