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Books The Crux

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• [[Richard Rumelt]]
• Strategy means actually dealing with the underlying complexity, opportunities, and charting a path through them; not blindly defining goals outside of context and then trying to choose a direction.
  • Further /some/ elements from the whole bundle of ambitions
• Identifying the crux for strategy means
  • which issues are actually important
  • and can be made progress against
  • and then concentrating all resources here
• Good strategies also let people trust you, are not wishy washy
• Writing reveal contradictions, weak arguments, and places where we need more data
• Goals
  • are not a strategy
  • "The idea that a person or organization has 1 or 2 primary driving goals is a fantasy"
    • actually a bundle of ambitions

— Kunal