Showing posts with label leaders are born. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leaders are born. Show all posts

Thursday, June 28, 2007

About strategy, leadership, innovation and creativity

Aight, this is a post of mine on my strategy group on facebook.
You have the right to disagree... or not...
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Let 'what' be a new or improved idea.
Let 'how' be a new or improved production method.

creativity = what + how
innovation = what * how (i.e. the product of...)

Good strategy lives in the realm of creativity.
Tactics are a series of specific techniques meant to implement the strategy (get the stupid things done).

We call half-ass strategy one that even if implemented correctly does not produce the expected result.

We call half-ass management one that implements incorrectly the predefined strategy.

Strategy needs not to be new or improved in order to succeed.

Nonetheless, a strategist holds the key to produce crazy productive and amazing results.

Now, may I ask, how many times a strategist implements the same old and safe patterns and then complains that the results are mediocre and his life is boring?

A good strategist is somewhat a risk taker, which is a personality trait...

So the moral of the story: good strategists and leaders are not made, they are born.