Strategy Distilled

Strategy Distilled Newsletter April 2022 covers:

1.  Strategy governance from the boardroom to front-line teams
2. Engaging middle managers on strategy
3. Snippets on strategy you may have missed: Chain of beliefs in strategy; Tesler’s Law of the Conservation of Complexity and Chesterton’s Fence

Strategy Distilled Newsletter March 2022 covers:

1.  Strategy destination or strategy aspiration?
2. Twelve  questions I'm asked most frequently about strategy … and the models I typically reach for, to help answer them. 
3. Snippets on strategy you may have missed: @mikebxtr on Twitter; gaining control; strategic resilience. 

Distillations in this newsletter ...

• The Triple Diamond Model of strategy – a brand new model from Goal Atlas.
• Can Ikigai reveal deficiencies in your strategy?
• Three books on strategy I've been enjoying that I thought you should know about.

Distillations in this newsletter ...

• Strategy KPIs: avoiding the tyranny of measurement
• Lessons for strategy from Pixar’s 22 rules for storytelling
• Snippets related to strategy you may have missed: on strategic decision-making and lessons on strategy from the Beatles.

Distillations in this newsletter. The ‘H’ model of strategy adoption - a new model released by Goal Atlas on Creative Commons, so you can use it in your own documents and presentations. How best to connect values with strategy.  Social proof is this month's lesson for strategy from behavioural economics.  And three snippets related to strategy you may have missed: A great quote on strategy adoption; the five types of people you'll meet when implementing change; in praise of Post-it notes.

Distillations in this newsletter:  Strategy Healthcheck: a new tool from Goal Atlas for you to try; the perils of hedging strategy; a lesson from behavioural economics on loss aversion and snippets related to strategy you may have missed: Net Promoter Score 3.0 and Lessons on strategic innovation from Lego.

Distillations in this newsletter:  The Strategy Manual – one year on.  The Strategy Lifecycle Model - our new model released from Goal Atlas on Creative Commons.  Lessons for strategy from other fields: This month we look at Antifragility.  Three snippets related to strategy you might have missed: strategy and the eigenquestion; the 'hot streak' model of innovation; strategy and culture.

Distillations in this newsletter:  Illusory superiority - a lesson from behavioural economics. The most important thing I learned this month – ‘process accountability’. How quantity trumps quality. What kind of strategist are you? The six roles required for strategy development. 

What we need to know about framing - from behavioural economics, how to use frame-stretching and frame-setting to boost creativity in strategy development, the case for strategy workshops for your organisation. And three snippets on strategy you might have missed - Virgin Atlantic's double helix strategy, digital avoidance, as a strategy and the front-line paradox.

Five strategy lessons from Amazon that we can all learn from. The VACU model for strategic risk assessment.  What is Confirmation Bias and why is it important in strategy work? Leadership lessons from Buurtzorg. How digital should your strategy be? Innovation environments must be safe-to-fail.