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This article does feel like an echo of Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy. One problem that Rumelt raises is that of information. How do you come to know enou
by blueyes 7y ago
This article does feel like an echo of Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
One problem that Rumelt raises is that of information. How do you come to know enough that you can reach a diagnosis?
If deciding on a strategy is the problem to be solved, then gathering the right information is the problem before the problem to be solved.
Secondly, if many people are familiar with these ideas, and their organizations are still not able to decide on an effective strategy, then there is a deeper and more interesting problem: how do you build groups of people that are able to reach good decisions together?
And it's not enough to simply encourage argument, as Dalio would suggest: https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-feedback-fallacy https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-feedback-fallacy