“today my guest is Richard rammelt Richard is an absolute legend in the world of strategy”
Richard Rumelt
Richard was a longtime professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management was on the faculty of Harvard Business School
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Focusing Power on an Addressable Target
Strategy works only when you concentrate a genuine source of power on a target that can actually be moved.
Spotting Bad Strategy
Four tells that a 'strategy' is actually empty: no diagnosis, goals-as-strategy, fluff, and incoherent actions.
The Action Agenda (Ambition-Filter Method)
Stop writing a 'strategy.' Filter your ambitions down to one important, addressable challenge and act.
The Crux: Insight Through Immersion
Find the single hardest solvable part of the problem, immerse in it, and let insight emerge.
The Foundry: Facilitating a Group to One Action Agenda
Put the leader plus 7-8 people in a room, surface 25 problems, then focus on the one or two addressable ones.
The Kernel of Good Strategy
Every real strategy has three parts: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.
The Value Deny: Finding Opportunity in What You Can't Buy
List what you should be able to buy but can't, or how a familiar product ought to work but doesn't.
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