Strategy and the Fat Smoker
by David H. Maister
Everyone knows what to do and does not do it: strategy fails for the same reason diets fail. Maister on the discipline, values and management that make firms actually execute.
Read it if…
your strategy is clear and your execution is not.
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Skip it if…
you want a strategy framework.
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Three things you will actually use
- Knowing is not the problem.
- Values enforced beat strategy declared.
- Short-term pain for long-term gain, repeatedly.
Do this first
Read the first chapter and identify what you already know you should do.
Our verdict
Knowing is not doing.
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