08/12/2022
This is a great breakdown of the importance of strategy. He discusses the need to embrace angst when developing a strategy. Strategies are focused on outcomes and setting the playing field - while plans focus on known outcomes. Embracing the anxiety that comes with reaching for the unknown is a key to growth - personal, team, and enterprise - John Maxwell refers to this as the "Law of the Rubberband". Maxwell says that growth stops when we lose the tension between what we are and what we can become. Embrace the tension that leads to growth.
A comprehensive plan—with goals, initiatives, and budgets–is comforting. But starting with a plan is a terrible way to make strategy. Roger Martin, former de...