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Strategy is born the moment there’s a tension between where you are and where you want to be. At the heart of every strategy lies a gap—a space between a current reality and a future aspiration. That gap may be wide or narrow, defined by ambition or forced by circumstance,… Read more.
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Strategy is born in the space between—between buyer and seller, attacker and defender, white and black pieces, company and market. Wherever two forces, entities, or perspectives meet, a boundary is drawn. And at that boundary, friction arises. Needs diverge, incentives misalign, and interests collide. It is in this friction that… Read more.
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Since it was taken from the military field to the business environment – and we can now see the word being applied to many other areas, such as sports, chess, diplomacy, etc. – there have been many efforts to adapt and to define what strategy really is. Conceptual discussions so… Read more.
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I was once called by a client to help them to build a strategic plan for a new business. Coming out of three mother companies, this joint venture should leverage their most distinct strengths. Fine. While asking about the capital structure, no objective answer came across. So, it was not… Read more.
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“Panta rei (everything changes), famous axiom from the pre-Socratic Heraclitus. “Everything depends on penetrating the uncertainty of veiled situations to evaluate the facts, to clarify the unknown, to make decisions rapidly, and then to carry them out with strength and constancy”. This is Von Moltke, disciple of Clausewitz. So, it’s… Read more.
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My job is to apply strategy in the organisational context. I’m often surrounded by executives and managers, some of whom are more experienced than I am, exchanging ideas and sharing thoughts about our work. By doing so, it’s common to being asked “how do I become a better strategist”? Sometimes… Read more.
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Replacing the old strategic planning by a new approach is not an original quote, is it? Take a look at this scene: Each 3-5 years we gather everybody (really? no, not everybody actually) for an off-site place, far away from the headquarters, and plan our strategy for the next years.… Read more.
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Instead of starting this blog by asking the classical question of what strategy is, I am going to address a different one: what could be defined as strategic and what should not be labeled as such? Nevertheless we will, for sure, go back to the very concept of strategy –… Read more.
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This is Vassily Kandinsky most complex painting, according to the author himself.
Startegy is complex – embrace chaos if you want to develop yourself as a pro strategist.
Composition VII, Tretyakov Gallery
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