The word “strategy” means an approach to dealing with a difficult challenge, especially that of competing with a clever opponent. To have a strategy is to have an approach to overcoming critical obstacles and difficulties

At many businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies, so-called strategy exercises do not produce strategies—because they are designed to do something else. In commercial settings, they are often attempts to predict and control financial outcomes, nothing more than a form of budgeting.

through many years of working with companies, government agencies, and the military, I have too often seen strategies that are actually a toxic mix of wishful thinking combined with a jumble of incoherent policies.

A McKinsey survey found that 70 percent of executives surveyed did not like their company’s strategy process and 70 percent of board members didn’t trust the results of that process

Real strategy work is hard. It is hard because serious strategy situations are much more complex than decision situations, Strategy is continued, ongoing problem solving

Strategy Execution Leaders are more likely to exceed performance in three business outcomes: Financial Targets, Strategic Objectives, and Delivery of Innovative Products/Services