Strategy is a Team Sport
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For a small business to experience healthy growth, it requires team members to operate as both strategists and tacticians. In this episode, Alex shares an excerpt from a Path for Growth team meeting where he leads a conversation about strategic thinking. He explains why strategy is so important as you’re trying to achieve your vision, and he shares practical steps for implementing strategic thinking in your day-to-day activity.
- Today we’re sharing an excerpt from our team meeting on strategic thinking (0:47)
- Every healthy business needs to be able to answer these three questions (1:42)
- Once you know where you’re going, the immediate next question is “how?” (5:53)
- To answer “how?” you need both strategy and tactics (9:18)
- Amplify your strengths and shore up your weaknesses (12:20)
- The specificity of your strategy will never exceed the specificity of your vision (14:54)
- Take responsibility for capturing and communicating what the win is (16:25)
- Effective strategists have more awareness of the moves available to them in the present (18:39)
- Take inventory of the moves you know and where you got them from (22:05)
- Pursue opportunities to rhythmically increase your moves (23:10)
- Team takeaways(24:48)
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